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I'm glad to hear that the library is working well for you. Thanks!

As for layers, this is something I have wanted myself. At present, more is needed from the underlying vty library to support this. The reason is that the vty library's Picture type is where layers are kept and where "compositing" of those layers into a final Image is performed, including dealing with cursor location info. You can read a bit more in the vty issue I filed about this very feature back in June:

jtdaugherty/vty#73

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(Needless to say, I have not had time to make patching vty for this a priority, but if this is something you want to tackle, you could coordinate with Corey about it on that ticket. I would also be interested to stay abreast of any developments.)

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Since this isn't something we can do much about in brick at the moment, I'm going to close this. However, if/when it becomes feasible I'm happy to re-open this and resume discussion about it!

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Hi Jonathan,

thank you very much for your detailed explanation, and sorry for the late reply.
I indeed had a look into vty, and it seems as one would have to write a function that converts DisplayOps back into Image, so more or less the reverse for displayOpsForImage. Unfortunately, that's quite some work. So I'll probably stay with a list of Widgets for now that I somehow concat along the drawing pipeline.

Many thanks for your help!
Thomas

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