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GrandPM
New Member
June 8, 2023

Change default canvas stacking in auto layout

  • June 8, 2023
  • 70 replies
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I am using auto layout a lot in my projects and think it is awesome. However, there is one small issue that annoys me a lot. The default setting for canvas stacking is always “Last on top”, which is usually not what I want. For instance when switching state of a dropdown in a layout, the dropdown list will appear below the content that is underneath it (at least in my case where the list is using absolute position). With lots of nested auto layouts, things quickly become a mess if you forgot to change this when you created the auto layout. I would suggest either of these solutions:

  • Change default to “First on top”.
  • Make the default setting optional
  • Remember the last used setting (like the animation properties work)

70 replies

Qwanah
September 19, 2023

Yes please, need this update. Thanks!

September 30, 2023

100% needed as a default. I have yet to want to have something on the bottom be on top.

Julian_Helfricht
October 9, 2023

Yes, please. For pretty much all other software, whatever is above in the layers panel, is higher up in z-index. Make that the default.

TomG
October 17, 2023

+1 here. I’m curious what the decision behind this was to go for the reverse order 🤷

Hoby-Van-Hoose
New Participant
October 27, 2023

Yeah, I’ve never understood why it was defaulted to Last On Top in the first place. I can’t think of a good reason for it. Can anyone?

Whenever the order is important, I always go in and switch it to First—which adds yet another few seconds of wasting my life.

Zainal_Muttaqin
New Member
October 30, 2023

Yesss!!! 100% i need First on Top is set by default.
I’m really annoyed because every time I create variants and nested instances, they have to be reordered.

Dominic
Active Member
October 31, 2023

+1 …First on top by default, no one wants to be last 😆

November 8, 2023

10000% Please!!

So bored of having to manually change ‘Last On Top’ to ‘First On Top’ …

Jim_Yencken
November 9, 2023

My love for auto layout is seemingly limitless… except for having to change this preference from a fiddly menu literally every single time I use it.

December 7, 2023

As a web developer, I’m absolutely of the opinion that this setting should be visible in the auto layout section, and that I should be able to set this as some level of global default. There is almost no case in which I would need Last on Top, meanwhile any time I am creating/applying common UI elements like popovers, dropdowns, and comboboxes, I have to repeatedly set stacking to First on Top.