SwapToLayer('background'), foreground becomes blank

martin · 3 Jan 2018, 15:42

Hi There,

I'm having trouble with the swapToLayer.

I have two layers, my current foreground layer (containing a rectangle) and background layer (containing an oval). if I now run the following

currentGlyph = CurrentGlyph()
currentGlyph.swapToLayer('background')

the rectangle is moved to background, but the oval disappears, foreground becomes blank. I had expected that the content of the layers is just swapped, foreground > background and background > foreground.

Thanks, Martin

frederik · 3 Jan 2018, 15:43

Hi Martin

swap will copy the glyph to the destination layer and clear the current layer
flip will copy the glyph to the destination and copy from the destination layer back to the current layer

as you already found out, thanks Jo

martin · 15 Mar 2015, 14:11

Excellent, thanks.
That’s what I was looking for!

Martin

jo · 3 Jan 2018, 15:43

Hi Martin,
you might try:

currentGlyph.flipLayers('Layer_A', 'Layer_B')

hope that helps,
jo