Is there a Layer/Sprite permanently on top of everything (Sprites like Scenes, etc)?

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  August 2013 edited August 2013

  Just add a sprite to stage after you have added the SceneManager - or before if you want Scene Manager above the game.
  
  I use scene manager whilst the game is running underneath on stuff I'm writing now - this way it looks more like a traditional arcade game - the game self-plays underneath in demo mode whilst the player picks his options/starts the game for real.

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  August 2013 edited August 2013 Accepted Answer

  Also we could use some overriding hackery (also known as witchcraft)
  Which would work also if you add elements tot he stage without sceneManager.
  as you want it always to be on top, we would want it to add to stage, so let's override stage addChild method to look for a "superLayer"

  stage.__addChild = Sprite.addChild function stage:addChild(child) print("adding child") if stage.__superLayer and stage:contains(stage.__superLayer) then local ind = stage:getChildIndex(stage.__superLayer) stage:addChildAt(child, ind) else stage:__addChild(child) end end

  then just for test, let's create a red text and set it as superLayer

  local text1 = TextField.new(nil, "text1") text1:setScale(4) text1:setPosition(100, 100) text1:setTextColor(0xff0000) stage:addChild(text1)   stage.__superLayer = text1 stage:addChild(text1)

  now we simple add another text in same position, but this time blue text, using simple addChild method

  local text2 = TextField.new(nil, "text2") text2:setScale(4) text2:setPosition(100, 100) text2:setTextColor(0x0000ff) stage:addChild(text2)

  And let's run the project.
  Wow, red text is still on the blue text, although we added blue text after red text, what a sorcery

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  August 2013

  lol, yes that works too, but it's a bit crazy.

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• Mells Guru

  August 2013

  @SinisterSoft, @ar2rsawseen
  thanks, I wanted to check if it was already available before adding yet another Sprite on top.
  
  This _superLayer implementation is interesting

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