Hi folks,
Some time ago, @Steve-Mcl shared a demo to simulate a HMI device via our Svg-Node. To accomplish that, Steve had to draw a number of screens that will be shown one by one in the dashboard. However he had a big issue to draw those screens with DrawSVG (= the SVG editor that we have integrated into our Svg node): DrawSvg had no layer manager, which means that - while designing a screen - that all other screens were also visible. So it was a mess of multiple screens rendered all together, which is very hard to work with.
To solve that problem, I have contacted again Joseph Liard (the author of DrawSvg). And although this functionality was not on his roadmap, he has been so kind to implement a layer manager in DrawSvg 7.6. 
So I would like to thank Joseph again for supporting our community!!
The layer manager from DrawSvg 7.6 is now available in both our SVG nodes:
- node-red-contrib-ui-svg uses the DrawSvg cloud editor, which is upgraded to 7.6. So there is no new version of this node available, since only the cloud editor is upgraded...
- node-red-contrib-drawsvg has been upgraded to version 1.1.0, which can host a local version of DrawSvg 7.6.
The layer manager is available in the top menu:
Here is a small demo that demonstrates how easy it has become to work with layers, e.g. to draw all your FontAwesome icons on a separate layer (and every layer can be showed or hided):
BTW Joseph has provided some showcases, for those who want tot start using his layer manager:
http://drawsvg.org/drawsvg.html#showcase:manage-layers
http://drawsvg.org/drawsvg.html#showcase:style-layers
http://drawsvg.org/drawsvg.html#showcase:change-layer
Have fun with it!
Bart
