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I've got to hand it to Romain. He has created a brilliant graphic to illustrate StackLayout.

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The more demos I write, the more effects I'd like to reuse for other demos. In some cases I'd like to reuse only a part of an effect. In the application I'm writing, I wanted to use the animated curves from Help Your Shelf. In this demo, there is a CurvePanel extending GradientPanel. My first problem was I wanted to change the gradient and I felt it was awkward to modify the base class rather than just using another implementation. I then added sprites to the demo and I wanted them to be displayed below the curves but on top of the gradient. That's why I decided to decouple every layer and use a StackLayout to produce this...