GUI Sort Order

Scripting Issues
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I am attempting to put various GUI elements on the screen and I want to ensure that these GUI elements will be sorted in front of all others. The GUI elements in the front are a mixture of Buttons and OnScreenImages. The GUI elements that should remain in back of the front elements are a mixture of Buttons, OnscreenImages, and OnScreenTexts. The GUI elements are also placed either on aspect2d or render2d. I have tried setting the sortOrder to a very high number but this does not seem to consistently work.

Is there a way for me to display some GUI elements and ALWAYS make sure they will be shown in front of some other overlapping GUI elements.

Thanks,
Brett

2

There’s a “gui-popup” bin specially for that purpose:

model.setBin("gui-popup", 50)
3

Thanks. That seems to help very much but I am still having a problem.

My Code:

self.background = DirectLabel(image='Images/pauseScreen.png', relief=None, image_scale=(1, 1, 1), image_pos=(0,0,0));self.background.reparentTo(render2d);
self.background.setBin("gui-popup", 50)
        
playImage = loader.loadModel("Images/playButton");

self.playButton = DirectButton(geom = (playImage.find('**/playButton'), playImage.find('**/playButton'), playImage.find('**/playButton'), playImage.find('**/playButton')), relief=None, command=self.Play);

self.playButton.reparentTo(aspect2d);
self.playButton.setScale(.4, 1, .2);
self.playButton.setPos(0, 0, -.3);
self.playButton.setBin("gui-popup", 50)
        
quitImage = loader.loadModel("Images/quitButton");

self.quitButton = DirectButton(geom = (quitImage.find('**/quitButton'), quitImage.find('**/quitButton'), quitImage.find('**/quitButton'), quitImage.find('**/quitButton')), relief=None, command=self.Quit);

self.quitButton.reparentTo(aspect2d);
self.quitButton.setScale(.4, 1, .2);
self.quitButton.setPos(0, 0, -.7);
self.quitButton.setBin("gui-popup", 50)

My OnScreenImage shows up over everything else but the two buttons that I create are not visible. I tried altering that 50 value to see if it worked but it did nothing. After looking through the documentation, it seems that the 50 value is ignored anyways unless i use ‘fixed’ instead of
‘gui-popup’.

What am I missing to make the buttons show up on top of my OnScreenImage?

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I don’t know, you might need to call setDepthTest(False) and setDepthWrite(False).