Depth of GameComponents?

I have a game with two components terrain and fpscounter. Without ordering, fpscounter may draw first then be overwritten by terrain. or If you use zbuffering fps appears but if your font has transparency to smooth the edges it looks all ugly, so ordering is important.

I had to comment out DrawCommponents and call each components.Draw manually in the order i wanted. Some simple integer zorder property on the components could work though.

Sorting could occur only when opponents are added or removed and the game could subscribe to a ZorderChanged event for each of it's child components?

T-MeK at 2007-9-3 >

MY TEST

the Update order cannot be controlled but orde of drawing can be controlled is very easy !!

private GrapM _grapm;
public GrapM CommonGraphics
{
get { return _grapm; }
set { _grapm = value; }
}

private SpriteBlendMode _blendedmode;
public SpriteBlendMode Alpha
{
set { _blendedmode = value; }
}

private float _Order;
public float Order
{
get { return _Order; }
set { _Order = value; }
}

private int _X;
public int X
{
get { return _X; }
set { _X = value; }
}

private int _Y;
public int Y
{ get { return _Y; }
set { _Y = value; }

....Texture information...bla...bla

load resoruces ..and draw....... use five SpriteBhach.Draw overload of the method

_grapm.spritebatch.Draw(Texture, new Vector2(_X, _Y), null, Color.White, 0f, new Vector2(0, 0), 0f, SpriteEffects.None,_Order);

GrapM and a component that is in charge of the Device and the Spritebach..

hanagomi at 2007-9-3 >