Frame Strata

Frame strata (sometimes called frameStrata) orders each on the screen, affecting how they overlap. These strata divide the z-axis into nine intervals (from back to front):

• 1) WORLD (see details)
• 2) BACKGROUND
• 3) LOW
• 4) MEDIUM
• 5) HIGH
• 6) DIALOG
• 7) FULLSCREEN
• 8) FULLSCREEN_DIALOG
• 9) TOOLTIP

Frame levels further divide each strata into smaller intervals, numbered 0-10000. Higher numbers appear above lower ones, but only if they share the same strata.

• WORLD is reserved for the world frame and cannot be assigned.
• Frames further partition the z axis into Layers when drawing a (e.g. Texture or FontString).
• Every frame defaults to appearing slightly above its parent, sharing the same strata but having one level higher.
• Set a frame's strata using:
• Set a frame's level using:
• to choose any value
• or to increase frameLevel to one higher than existing frames which were previously in front but within the same frameStrata
• for the opposite (no equivalent in XML)
• to make frameLevel the same as the parent frame (instead of normally being one higher)