Hi Tim, It's true that MIPro generates the drop shadow object directly beneath the object, and that you have limited control over the layering, only having "move top" and "move bottom", not "move upwards" and "move downwards" as is usually available in drawing programs.
But the drop shadow is a seperate object that you can move independently from the shape that originated it. So any layering can be achieved, although it gets rather messy with more than two objects with drop shadow to handle. To my knowledge there's no programmatical control of the layering beyond what's available interactively. The "table" representation of the layout is certainly not resorted according to changes layering, it remains sorted according to creation order. However a layout layering helper tool should be fairly easy to implement in MB, the only "difficulty" will be to automatically generate an alphanumeric id for the layout objects that makes sense to the user. Best regards/Med venlig hilsen Lars V. Nielsen GisPro, Denmark http://www.gispro.dk/ http://hjem.get2net.dk/lars-online/ WGS84: 10.20'40"E 55.20'20"N ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim.Nuteson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 10:25 PM Subject: MI-L How does MI Pro create drop shadows? > If I create a drop shadow under a rectangle in a layout window, it gets > placed directly underneath the object that was selected, but above other > objects that are underneath the selected rectangle. I would like to do the > same thing (insert an object between two other objects in the 'stack'), but > the only ordering control I have in the layout is to either send something > all the way to the back or bring something all the way to the front. > > How does MI pro do it? Is there a behind-the-scenes loop happening that > creates a list of layout record IDs and jams the drop shadow in there > somehow? Am I missing some logic here? > > Thanks- > > Tim Nuteson > Target Corporation > --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 4680
