Android Question Panel elevation (again?)

[nibbo]

Hi all

I am having problems with hidden panels not showing when made visible in the code.

In the designer I have created a panel which has the visible checkbox unticked.
The panel elevation is set to 2 (have tried lots of different numbers) but when it is made visible in the code it does not show over the top of the activity.

The layout is set in the designer script to fill the entire screen using

pnlName.SetLeftAndRight(0,100%x)
pnlName.SetTopAndBottom(0,100%y)

The only way I can get it to work is to put all of the activity controls on a another panel and hide that before I show the desired panel.

Any ideas?

Thanks

 

[Computersmith64]

Can't you just use pnlName.BringToFront?

- Colin.

 

[nibbo]

Can't you just use pnlName.BringToFront? - Colin.

Hi Colin, thanks for the suggestion but unfortunately this does not seem to work either.

 

[klaus]

Can you post your project as a zip file or a small example showing the problem?

By the way, instead of this code in the DesignerScript
pnlName.SetLeftAndRight(0,100%x)
pnlName.SetTopAndBottom(0,100%y)
you can remove the two lines and set the two anchors to both

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[nibbo]

Can you post your project as a zip file or a small example showing the problem?
you can remove the two lines and set the two anchors to both View attachment 70507.

Hi Klaus

Weird, I did a quick demo and the panel shows fine even though I forgot to set the elevation in the designer!
I set the elevation to 0 in my project and the panel is now showing Ok which has just served to confuse me even more...

It may be that I have rebooted my device since or disconnected it form the designer but no matter what I do I cannot get it to go wrong.
All good now but no idea what caused it to behave differently in the first place.

I was aware of the anchors but that makes it difficult in the designer to do the layout with all of the controls from the main activity showing through so I tend to drag panels away from the activity until I am happy with the layout then anchor them when I have finished.

Thanks for your time.