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Z order of images. Is there a better way to sort through them?

I have 30+ buttons on my front panel overlapped.  Each button's image is transparent when "off" and when "on" it shows a semi transparent image.  Along the way one of the buttons were turned on when I aborted the program and trying to get to the"button layer" of interest is a pain.  I am using the Z-order "move backwards", but I have other controls on the front panel so I don't know how far back in the Z-order I can go before other controls are out of order as well. 

 

Is there a way to manage the ordering of the controls more efficiently?

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Hello Regulator,

 

Double-clicking the terminal for the button you're trying to access and using the Ctrl+Shift+K hotkey should bring the control to the front, visible or not.  That being said, it might be a good idea to consider other options (a picture indicator, for instance) if you're using 30+ stacked objects to display data.

 

Regards,

Tom L.
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Thanks for replying Tom!

 

I didn't know the "Re-order" re-ordered the front panel as well.  That's cool.  I'll play around with that.

 

I am dealing with a cluster, so all my controls are inside there.  I saw that the "context help" {ctrl+h} enumerated the child controls and displayed them as a list, but they are not in Z-order, but, I believe, alphabetic.  If this list of "child controls" were sorted based upon Z-order that would be useful. 

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