Screen Layering Issues [Solved-ish]

[Thee Forsaken One]

Having some odd errors with screen layering. Here are the screens in question. Note I cut out some parts (Mostly filenames of images being used) to keep it short:

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screen receptionArea():

    modal True
    zorder 100

    use locationDateTimeScreen("Reception","Wed 27 May",0)

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screen locationDateTimeScreen(l,d,t):

    zorder 1000
    fixed:

        xalign 0.0
        yalign 0.0
        fit_first True

        add "gui/AreaDateTimeBorder.png"

        imagebutton idle "gui/button.png" hover "gui/button.png" action ToggleScreen("statOverlay") xalign 0.0 yalign -9.5

        text l xalign 0.03 yalign 0.25 font "fonts/SHOWG.ttf" size 52
        text d xalign 0.93 yalign 0.25 font "fonts/SHOWG.ttf" size 52

        if t==0:
            add "gui/morningicon.png" xalign 0.995 yalign 0.1
        elif t==1:
            add "gui/middayicon.png" xalign 0.995 yalign 0.1
        else:
            add "gui/eveningicon.png" xalign 0.995 yalign 0.1

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screen statOverlay():

    zorder 200
    fixed:

        xalign 0.0
        yalign 0.0
        fit_first True

        add "gui/statmenu.png"

locationDateTimeScreen correctly appears on top of ReceptionArea but statOverlay appears on top of everything when the toggle button is clicked. I'm not sure what is causing this as simpler code such as:

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screen btn():
    zorder 100
    textbutton "open" action ToggleScreen("scr") text_color "#000"

screen scr():
    zorder 10
    add Solid("#FFF", xysize=(100,30))

Works completely fine when used.

A few things I've checked:

• None of my screens have been appended to config.overlay_screens.
• I am not using layers.
• Setting the zorder of statOverlay below 100 does correctly hide it behind receptionArea but as soon as it is 100 or greater it's once again on top of everything.

I'm honestly at a loss here. Beyond some convoluted redrawing of the locationDateTimeScreen every time I press the toggle button I'm not sure what's causing this issue. Any ideas?

[Remix]

Your locationDateTimeScreen is likely inheriting the zorder of its parent screen receptionArea ... So it becomes 100 rather than 1000

Also, post your code in [code]Your code here[/code] tags please (to preserve formatting)

[Thee Forsaken One]

Ah yeah. I should have realised use would probably cause that issue. I suppose I could get around it by always calling the screens to show separately instead of using use even if it's not the most elegant.

P.S. Woops, used c instead of code for my tags.

EDIT: Separating the screen calls works so solved-ish, I guess.