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That's correct. Both are buffered in separate queues
with the distinction that AFL regular plots are buffered
in AmiBroker-own way therefore I have control
to play it in any order I wish, while low-level graphics use
Windows Standard metafile that is played back in order
of "recording" (FIFO)
Best regards,
Tomasz Janeczko
amibroker.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Brown" <see3d@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 5:14 PM
Subject: Re: [amibroker] GraphZOrder of Gfx drawings?
> So plot commands must also be buffered --since you can choose to have
> the Gfx plot first or after all the AFL plot commands. And since the
> AFL plot commands can plot in forward or reverse order, that plot
> buffer can be thought of as being a FIFO or LIFO buffer. With Gfx we
> seem to only have the FIFO option. Whereas for movable drawn buttons,
> the LIFO option is preferred to make the code processing flow
> naturally --so that top visible buttons process the mouse clicks first.
>
> BR,
> Dennis
>
> On May 30, 2008, at 10:54 AM, J. Biran wrote:
>
>> TJ replied to my question: How can I get some Gfx plots
>> under and others on top of graphics?
>> You can't. You can only overlay everything in front or in
>> back.
>> ...
>> Gfx functions are executed completely independent of regular
>> drawing. All Gfx commands are queued for later execution in
>> something that is called Metafile that is later played back
>> on output device regardless of what is happening with
>> regular Plot() commands.
>> Joseph Biran
>> ____________________________________________
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dennis Brown
>> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 7:42 AM
>> To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [amibroker] GraphZOrder of Gfx drawings?
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I just realized that the default plot Z order is opposite
>> that of the
>> Gfx drawing functions.
>>
>> This really messes up my draggable drawn button arrays I
>> just finished
>> coding after several days.
>>
>> Of course I want the first button drawn to be on top so that
>> I can
>> have modular button code to receive mouse clicks from the
>> top drawn
>> buttons and not pass the mouse clicks to a hidden overlapped
>> button
>> underneath. This is important, especially when the button
>> is the
>> handle to drag the whole array around the chart and it
>> becomes hidden
>> by a now nonfunctional button on top.
>>
>> Is there a way to make the Gfx functions follow the
>> GraphZOrder rules
>> of the other plot functions?
>>
>> Otherwise the only way I know is to split all the button
>> click
>> processing and drawing apart and mirror image them across
>> the
>> Formula. This is a pain and turns my nice modular code into
>>
>> duplicated spaghetti code.
>>
>> The lack of Z control on plots (or specified plot layers)
>> has already
>> cost me many dozens of hours of extra AFL code and
>> architecting around
>> this issue during the last year. This has been on the
>> requested list
>> in one form or another by different users for just about
>> forever. I
>> hope it makes its way into a release in the not to distant
>> future.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Dennis
>>
>>
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