Layers - reordering or z-index?

[Tymewalk]

(For the last two tasks in #2.)

I was thinking about how I would go about doing layers with Slither and I came up with two solutions:

• Directly re-order the sprites list
• Give each sprite a z-index that would be used to sort the sprites list

Re-ordering allows us to use "go to front" and "go back () layers" functions, but z-indexes would allow us to quickly sort the sprites list.

@BookOwl, @Omegabyte, what do you guys think?

[ghost]

Hmm

[ghost]

I'm thinking directly reorder the sprite list, adding z-indexes wold just increase complexity.

[BookOwl]

I think that we should use z-indexes because

1. It would make it easy for the end user to get the z-index of a Sprite by just using sprite.zIndex
2. It would be easy to implement. We would just need to do sorted(sprites, key=(lambda s: s.zIndex))

[ghost]

true

[Tymewalk]

So I think z-indexes are the way to go. I'll get on that, it shouldn't be too hard.

[Tymewalk]

In #31 I added the z-indexes. So I'm closing this since we've reached a conclusion and added it with no problems.