"Zenja Solaja" <solaja@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > a) Is this a BeOS bug, or am I wrong? What you want is done like this: AddChild(background); background->AddChild(control); while you can have sibling views, BeOS does not support a defined behaviour in case they overlap - and it's the same with Haiku. It's not a bug, it's a documented property. Bye, Axel.