Active Layers, Multiple Select Layers, Changing Layers in Game

hawt

Hey guys... been looking through the forums and have found people with similar issue as myself and haven't really found a solution....

I'm trying to do something I thought was relatively simple but it's ending up a lot harder than i expected.... I got a square, rectangle, circle and triangle counter... I want to be able to drag and drop them and on select/touch, make them the highest layer so that they will be seen over the others when it is drag over them....

once they are all over each other, when i try to move the top later, on touch, it is grabbing all the shapes and moving them all at once (I think I may be able to add an attribute to determine which one is touchable - but this is assuming I can make the latest slected one on the top layer).....

loving game salad but this is frustrating me (yes i know i need to have more patience)..... I'm sure I'm doing something stupid and one of the expects in here will be laughing at me (the newbie).....

Hope someone can help....

thanks in advance.....

LiquidGameworks

hawt

thanks for the quick response... will look at it now..... the GS community rocks.....

hawt

that's perfect.... been watching so many tut videos on the weekend but somehow managed not to have seen this one..... this will get me 80% of the way there.... i do have a few added complications but what fun is there if everything is easy thanks liquidgameworks....

hawt

bugger.... the workaround seems to be ok if I have a limited amount of actors, however I'm trying to spawn (or duplicate the shape) when the user click on it so there will be multiple of the same actor/shape which makes it almost impossible to use this method....

Just wish that there is a way to bring to front on touch/click..... who do i need to beg or bribe for this to be in the next release of GS