[Cuis-dev] UI-Color-Panel.pck.st update

[ken.dickey at whidbey.com]

Hi Hilaire,

I just noticed the layerNumber additions and adapted the ColorEditor to 
it.

I am afraid that the layerNumber implementation has not matured yet.

There are problems with Morph menu #sendToBack, and #bringToFront, which 
now sometimes fail to work or show artifacts (attached).

I now find morph menus cluttered with "underlying" halo icons 
obfuscating menu selections.

On a small screen, I frequently send some kind of a Panel back to view 
occluded Morphs.

Perhaps a weighting system rather than static layer numbers?  Perhaps 
only use adjustable properties?

Needs more thought.. and more testing.

$0.02,
-KenD


On 2025-05-18 08:25, Hilaire Fernandes via Cuis-dev wrote:

> Indeed parent class of Color Edit, Panel, has  a lower layer number, 
> 30.
> 
> When invoking a Panel on top of an application window, it should not 
> fall behind this application window (kids will do that) otherwise user 
> will get lost. Or imagine the ColorPanel used to set color on object in 
> a window underneath.
> 
> May be your change with the property could be moved up to Panel in the 
> class hierarchy, with a default value of 30, and ColorPanel could 
> adjust its property to 100 in its initialize method. This will give 
> more freedome for user of these classes to adjust accordingly to their 
> needs.
> 
> Le 17/05/2025 à 01:15, ken.dickey--- via Cuis-dev a écrit :
> 
>> Greetings!
>> 
>> As I am going through docs/tutorials again, I found that the 
>> ColorEditor panel stayed at front, which does not accord with the 
>> Layout Tutorial.   Also, moving this Morph to back via morph menu did 
>> not work.
>> 
>> I updated this to be #layerNumber 100, which acts as a regular Morph 
>> with respect to Z-order.
>> 
>> At the same time, I updated all package requirements to the 
>> latest/current.
>> 
>> If you are using UI-Color-Panel.pck.st, you will need to update to 
>> latest.
>> 
>> Sorry for any problems.
> 
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