Variable watchers always in front of sprites

Paddle2See commented 10 years ago

This issues was brought to my attention by Boltbait on his Chess project

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/2737104/

where you can see that the "Ply" variable is in front of the title screen, despite a "go to front" block on the title screen. Dragging the title screen sprite manually in the editor also does not move it in front of the variable for very long - as soon as you release the sprite with the mouse, the variable jumps in front of it.

I remixed the Chess project and removed all the sprites except one, all the variables except one, all the lists except one, etc. This isolation project is here

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/24759729

It also shows the behavior - although at times it has gone away during this narrowing process so that I had to start over. I've looked at the JSON file of this project and I don't see anything unusual other than a Comments section that seems to contain comments added by the author - there's nothing visible in the project though (that I have found). There is also a rather large History section.

Newly created projects do not seem to have this problem - so I'm thinking there is something weird about this particular project. Consequently, I've tagged it as low priority since it is only impacting a small population so far as we know.

Paddle2See commented 10 years ago

I don't see a way to attach a file here - so I'll paste in the JSON in case it is helpful

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