#2: Setting to prevent content deletion for text.

include/Zenderer/GUI/Font.hpp

@@ -161,6 +161,9 @@ namespace gui
         /// Sets the font size.
         void SetSize(const uint16_t size) { m_size = size; }
 
+        /// Enables / Disables rendering on top of existing entity data.
+        void SetStacking(const bool flag);
+
         uint16_t GetTextWidth(const string_t&  text) const;
         uint16_t GetTextHeight(const string_t& text) const;
 
@@ -187,6 +190,7 @@ namespace gui
 
         uint16_t m_size;
         uint16_t m_height;
+        bool     m_stack;
     };
 }   // namespace gfx
 }   // namespace zen

src/GUI/Font.cpp

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ gfx::CEffect* CFont::s_FontFx = nullptr;
 CFont::CFont(const void* const owner) :
     CAsset(owner), mp_Assets(nullptr),
     m_Color(0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0),
-    m_size(18), m_height(0)
+    m_size(18), m_height(0), m_stack(false)
 {}
 
 CFont::~CFont()
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ bool CFont::Render(obj::CEntity& Ent, const string_t to_render)
             << "Rendering text string '" << text << "'." << CLog::endl;
 
     // Fresh start.
-    Ent.Destroy();
+    if(!m_stack) Ent.Destroy();
 
     // 4 vertices for each character, and 6 indices for
     // each character.
@@ -411,6 +411,11 @@ void CFont::SetColor(const color4f_t& Color)
     m_Color = Color;
 }
 
+void CFont::SetStacking(const bool flag)
+{
+    m_stack = flag;
+}
+
 uint16_t CFont::GetTextWidth(const string_t& text) const
 {
     if(text.empty()) return 0;