Converting GuiTheoraCtrl to a scene object.

#1 There is a concept of layers in GUIs, but only between controls. So you can't but a control in front of one "sceneObject" layer and behind another. Making a theora scene object sounds very doable to me...

#2 You could just use t2dSceneObject.attachGui( myTheoraControl ) to place the movie in the scene..unless you wanted to do t2dSceneObject methods on it directly. If you're willing to dig deep into the code it should be possible to write a new class based on the theora control code. Also, gui containers are simsets iirc, so you should be able to script a push/pop workaround to resort the contents (as gui layers are just set by order in the file/top container)?

#3 Ok, so far I have been able to get the new t2dTheora class working. I was able to create a new t2dTheora object in script, set the layer and play a movie partially behind a static sprite. The position is hardcoded for now. There seems some incompatibility between coordinates used for Gui controls and those used for scene objects. I need to get the object position and feed it to dglDrawBitmapStretch(mTheoraTexture, rect); Any idea?

I looked at other objects that inherit t2dSceneObject. The code is just too hard to decode. at least for me :)

#4 Drew, I am aware of "attachGui" but what I really need is to be able to place the movie in a layer together with other scene objects. So basically, I want to be able to display something in front of the movie. I wasn't able to figure out a way to do it without converting the GuiTheoraCtrl to be a child of scene object.

#5 How did you manage to get the movie to play behind other static sprites?