I am working on an A7 lite-c project. I have a minimap VIEW that I would like to make drag-able and resize-able. (Anyone here ever play Minions of Mirth?). I haven't seen any sample code, and search didn't turn anything up that looked related.

So, my plan is to have a PANEL with the VIEW superimposed over it, and have buttons on the PANEL that I will use for resizing/dragging/closing/zooming .

Unfortunately, I can't get the VIEW to stay above the PANEL. I have set the VIEW's layer to a larger number than the PANEL's, but the PANEL is always covering the VIEW. I have tried making the VIEW a little bigger than the PANEL to test to make sure the VIEW is actually being displayed, and it is peeking out from behind the PANEL.

Am I making this too complicated? Does this sound like a good solution, or is there a better way? And, is there something besides the "layer" property that I need to fiddle with to make this work?

Thanks for any help you can offer.

Hi!

"Panels, texts and view entities with a negative layer value are now drawn below VIEW objects, and can be used to draw into the background of a view when the sky is switched off."
- Manual new features 7.04

Did not test it yet....but it should work....

You can make it this way:
make your panel cover the view
make a cutout hole in your panel using alpha-channel or overlay, this will create an illusion that the view is over the panel

Dennis: I tried what the manual said, setting my panel layer to -10 and my view layer to a positive number, and the panel still overlaps. I have version 7.04. My level does have a sky cube - I don't know if this statement, "...when the sky is switched off" says I can't have a sky? or can I turn the sky off on my minimap view?

Shadow: I created a 256x256 TGA w/ a colored border and a transparent background. I used it for the panel bmap, and viola - I could see my minimap view. Thanks.

Probably it has something to do with the sky cube....if I find some time I will test it....