API Z-order with newly created objects, toFront(), and toBack() is broken

I'm writing a pretty complex script (that I'm going to share with the community) that simply won't reliably draw without toFront() and toBack() working properly. I have a mix of graphics and paths where I need to be able to control the Z-order, and I find toFront() and toBack() to have no effect. Thanks to The Aaron for pointing out a workaround: run toBack() against objects in series with a delay of 50ms between each operation. (The same process for toFront() failed even with delays up to 1000ms). Successes: Natural insertion of paths (if no graphics are involved). toBack() of mixed graphics and paths if delayed in series. Failures: Natural insertion of graphics. Natural insertion of mixed graphics and paths. toFront(). toBack() without delays. I have a thread in the API forum about this as well, as it's API-related, but I haven't gotten a response there: API forum thread I also wrote a script that illustrates the error (and can be used for debugging) - the pic above was generated by this script: tester script

This has been updated with more detailed findings.

Awesome - thanks!

Any luck with this? :)

We are busy with the current push on the next update but it is still on our radar. Sorry for no fix yet.

Thanks for the update... I hope the push is going well.

Bumping this thread so it doesn't get locked. This is still the bug that haunts me the most. :)

Rand, did putting in a time out like Riley suggested or other asychronous to syncronous tricks solve the issue?

Steve K. said: Rand, did putting in a time out like Riley suggested or other asychronous to syncronous tricks solve the issue? I can't believe I missed this message... sorry! If you look at the image at the top, you'll see that the only thing that works (most of the time) is ToBack() with delays and run in series - no other tricks worked for me or Aaron. Even that doesn't work perfectly, and if you have a lot of images on the page, they'd ALL have to be cycled through since the Z-order would be altered at the page level. I'm using this currently in a hefty script, and the redrawing can take a long time if there are a lot of objects.