Paintable Canvas Hacks

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Using the paintable canvas as an overlay:

Component outline on different z-order than component

The paintable canvas can be used as an overlay to provide this effect without any regard to z-order or component positioning. Simply overlay the entire container with a paintable canvas, and use the canvas's mouse moved event to detect when the cursor intersects a component, so a top level outline can be painted around it: Example: Add the following custom properties to the canvas: [image] Add the following custom methods to the canvas:

passMouseEvent

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