Does iOS have limitations changing the draw order on display groups?

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

I have a main display group, which contains 7 smaller display groups for UI, messages etc:

allLayers = display.newGroup()  
  
backgroundLayer = display.newGroup()  
mainLayer = display.newGroup()  
overlayLayer = display.newGroup()  
tileOpenedLayer = display.newGroup()  
helpLayer = display.newGroup()  
retryLayer = display.newGroup()  
topLayer = display.newGroup()   
  
allLayers:insert(backgroundLayer)   
allLayers:insert(mainLayer)  
allLayers:insert(overlayLayer)  
allLayers:insert(tileOpenedLayer)  
allLayers:insert(helpLayer)  
allLayers:insert(retryLayer)  
allLayers:insert(topLayer)

It might seem a little bit unnecessary to some, but each of these layers can potentially be displaying an object at the same time, and I needed to make sure they were drawn in the correct order.
On the simulator everything works fine. However on iOS devices, the ‘retryLayer’ always renders above the ‘topLayer’. I have no idea why it would be different on iOS devices, unless it has problems with nested display groups.
I have also tried using topLayer:toFront() to try and force it to the front (even though it should already be there), and I don’t use toBack() or toFront() anywhere else in the project.

Any ideas? [import]uid: 84115 topic_id: 35006 reply_id: 335006[/import]

#2

I’ve taken the 7 groups out of the allLayers group (i.e. commented out lines 11-17), and it works as it should on the device.
Still not sure why it didn’t work when these groups were nested, but at least it works. I had actually forgotten that I no longer need the allLayers group any longer since that was there for manually handling the devices reorientation, which proved to be more trouble than it was worth so we took it out. [import]uid: 84115 topic_id: 35006 reply_id: 139189[/import]

#3

I’ve taken the 7 groups out of the allLayers group (i.e. commented out lines 11-17), and it works as it should on the device.
Still not sure why it didn’t work when these groups were nested, but at least it works. I had actually forgotten that I no longer need the allLayers group any longer since that was there for manually handling the devices reorientation, which proved to be more trouble than it was worth so we took it out. [import]uid: 84115 topic_id: 35006 reply_id: 139189[/import]