
Controlling Stacking Order
Complex Graphics on a Single Layer
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Controlling Stacking Order
Within a single layer, text elds, grouped
objects, drawing-objects, and primitives
stack as if they were sitting on sublay-
ers above any ungrouped merge-shapes.
Stacking order exists even if objects don’t
literally lie on top of one another. If you
have a group on one side of the Stage and a
drawing-object on the other, you can’t see
which one stacks higher than the other; but
if you drag the objects so they overlap, the
order becomes apparent. (Symbols, which
you’ll learn about in Chapter 7, are another
type of graphic-object that stacks on top of
ungrouped ...