relayering groups within groups?

Jim Ault JimAultWins at yahoo.com
Wed Feb 1 01:26:34 EST 2006


And whatever you do, BACK UP first... maybe a couple of copies :-)

Jim Ault
Las Vegas


On 1/31/06 9:35 PM, "Sarah Reichelt" <sarah.reichelt at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2/1/06, Terry Judd <tsj at unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>> I'm having real trouble trying to change the layer of a group within a
>> group without it either 'breaking free' from it's parent group (to be
>> owned by the card) or somehow joining with another 'sub' group that
>> belongs to the parent group.
>> 
>> I've got the relayerGroupedControls set to true and I've tried setting
>> the layer of the sub-group I want to bring to the front of the group to
>> both "the number of controls" and the number of controls - the number
>> of controls of the sub group (and various other incantations) none of
>> which seem to have the desired effect.
>> 
> 
> I recommend NOT setting relayerGroupedControls to true. Instead,
> select your parent group and then click "Edit group" in the toolbar.
> Everything but the group will disappear. Then you can select your
> sub-group and use the normal "Send to back", "Send to front" etc menu
> items without the sub-group being able to come out of the parent
> group.





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