Display objects in front of video

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

Hi there,

Wondering if there is a way to show display objects in front of video. I’ve tried the native video api and putting the video on a group, then doing a group:toBack() but that doesn’t seem to work. I’d love some help with this since we’ve committed our project to Corona before knowing whether this would work for sure and the deadline is getting near.

Thanks!
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#2

Sorry, native display objects must always go on top of Corona (OpenGL) display objects. The most you might be able to do is put another native display object on top of the video.

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#3

So no images in front of video then…? I don’t see how to do that. There is no “native image” object. [import]uid: 89562 topic_id: 21847 reply_id: 86829[/import]

#4

No images. You might be able to put a web view in front, but I really discourage that. Performance will probably be terrible, it will suck up a lot of RAM, and web view is a pretty nasty piece of work and doesn’t always superimpose correctly (there are known bugs on the Mac that can crash an app that Apple has still not fixed in 5 years).
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#5

Ok, thanks. That’s too bad. [import]uid: 89562 topic_id: 21847 reply_id: 87042[/import]