How to know shape stack order very easy

Genete · Post by **Genete** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 6:48 pm

There are several post in the forum related to a feature request that is to know where a shape is in relation to other in the stack order of a vector layer.

I've realizaed that if you name all the shapes (may be with auto name shapes and bones option) you can know where the shape is in relation to the others only looking the Select shape pull down at Style window. It shows the lower shapes first and the upper shapes last.

It is great!

artfx · Post by **artfx** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 7:07 pm

Great tip! This info will be great when doing very complex switch layers and you can't always find your shapes.

Rasheed · Post by **Rasheed** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 9:18 pm

I agree, good tip.

I only wished the shape names were exposed to the Lua interface, so script writers wouldn't have to hack around that omission by parsing the .anme file or hard coding the shape ids.

Rai López · Post by **Rai López** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 10:22 pm

Rasheed wrote:I only wished the shape names were exposed to the Lua interface

Yes, that it'd be the "key" to can play freely with shapes, I hope too that happen soon...