GUI.depth Questions

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1

Hello, I’m trying to create file tab like system in the OnGUI() function. I’m using the GUI.depth property to attempt to change the depth of the selected tab.
Here is my code:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;

public class TabGui: MonoBehaviour
{
    public int tabOneDepth;
    public int tabTwoDepth;

    public GUISkin tabSkin;

    public Rect backgroundRect;
    public Rect tabRect;

    void OnGUI()
    {
        GUI.skin = tabSkin;
        #region MainBackground
         GUI.BeginGroup(new Rect(230, 0, 570, 768));
         GUI.Box(backgroundRect, "", "Background");
         GUI.EndGroup();
        #endregion

        #region Tabs
         GUI.BeginGroup(new Rect(0, 0, 230, 768));
         #region BodyTab
          TabOne(tabOneDepth);
         #endregion

         #region ClothesTab
          TabTwo(tabTwoDepth);
         #endregion
         GUI.EndGroup();
        #endregion
    }

    public void TabOne(int depth)
    {
        GUI.depth = depth;
        GUI.Box(tabRect, "", "TabOne");

        if (depth == 0)
        {

        }
    }

    public void TabTwoTab(int depth)
    {
        GUI.depth = depth;
        GUI.Box(tabRect, "", "TabTwo");

        if (depth == 0)
        {

        }
    }
}

However no matter what the depth of either function, TabTwo is always on top.

Thanks,
Hans

2

Here’s a question I asked on the same topic:

Long story short:

You have to draw overlapping controls in separate scripts if you want to control the layering.