Can the layer order of image controls be changed? (1 Viewer)

[p13man]

I'm playing around with a glass look for the images in MP TV Series' banner view (genre and series screens).

The idea is fairly simple, I've made replacement images for the banner framing images - tvseries_banner_focus.png and tvseries_banner_nofocus.png - which is starting to look good except for one thing: it seems at run-time,that these framing images are drawn first and the banner image is drawn over them.

Is there any way to work around that so that the the series banner is on a layer behind the fram rather than in front of it.

The attached thumbs (below) illustrate the effect I want to achieve. I've read everything I can find about MP skinning but can't see a way to do what I want. Is there anybody out there who can?

Thanks in advance.

 

[emphatic]

Try putting the image you want to have in the background before the one you want on top.

Example mockup code™

<image>
banner
</image>

<image>
overlay
</image>

That's the way I've seen it done, but I'm not sure if id's come into play as well.
Emph

 

[p13man]

Thanks for the idea, emphatic, part of the problem is that I couldn't work out how to do what youre suggesting. I'm looking at the latest version of MP TV series now, which has a lot more information for skinners than previous ones. What I really need is a source of information - the wiki isn't always correct and the code specs for over half of the possible control attributes haven't been written, or I can't find it.
I'll leave the thread open for any other suggestions or, perhaps some kind soul will suggest a iisource which has the information I need.

 

[emphatic]

Thanks for the idea, emphatic, part of the problem is that I couldn't work out how to do what youre suggesting. I'm looking at the latest version of MP TV series now, which has a lot more information for skinners than previous ones. What I really need is a source of information - the wiki isn't always correct and the code specs for over half of the possible control attributes haven't been written, or I can't find it.
I'll leave the thread open for any other suggestions or, perhaps some kind soul will suggest a iisource which has the information I need.

So did you try my suggestion? Did it not work?
Emph

 

[p13man]

So did you try my suggestion? Did it not work?

Sorry if my reply was unclear. I can't try it exactly as you suggested because of the way the related xml skin file is written (TVSeries.xml) - I'm not sure what code to amend, which is why I posted it in the TV series topic rather than the skin topic. If you know, pls tell.