[Xcircuit-dev] change of drawing order

[R. Timothy Edwards]

Dear Jan,

>  right now it is not possible to change the drawing order of objects in
> xcircuit.
> This is a problem if a filled rectangle covers a text because it was
> drawn after the text.
> There seems not to be a way of placing the text over the rectangle again.
> Other programs have a function like "put to front" "put to back".

It's not in the menu (although that should be reasonably easy to do),
but the method *does* exist, and is explained in tutorial 1.  If you
select a single element and type "X" (Shift-x), then it goes to the
"top" of the drawing stack.  If it's already on top, then it goes to
the bottom.  If you select 2 elements, and type "X", then their order
is exchanged ("X" stands for eXchange).

					Regards,
					Tim

+--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
| Dr. R. Timothy Edwards (Tim)   | email: tim.edwards at multigig.com     |
| MultiGiG, Inc.                 | web:   http://www.multigig.com      |
| 100 Enterprise Way, Suite A-3  | phone: (831) 621-3283               |
| Scotts Valley, CA 95066        | cell:  (240) 401-0616               |
+--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+