Allow moving existing widgets to the top of interaction stack

crates/egui/src/containers/area.rs

@@ -523,6 +523,7 @@ impl Area {
                     enabled,
                 },
                 true,
+                Default::default(),
             );
 
             // Used to prevent drift

crates/egui/src/containers/window.rs

@@ -958,6 +958,12 @@ fn resize_interaction(
                 enabled: true,
             },
             true,
+            InteractOptions {
+                // We call this multiple times.
+                // First to read the result (to avoid frame delay)
+                // and the second time to move it to the top, above the window contents.
+                move_to_top: true,
+            },
         );
         SideResponse {
             hover: response.hovered(),

crates/egui/src/context.rs

@@ -1226,7 +1226,12 @@ impl Context {
     ///
     /// `allow_focus` should usually be true, unless you call this function multiple times with the
     /// same widget, then `allow_focus` should only be true once (like in [`Ui::new`] (true) and [`Ui::remember_min_rect`] (false)).
-    pub(crate) fn create_widget(&self, w: WidgetRect, allow_focus: bool) -> Response {
+    pub(crate) fn create_widget(
+        &self,
+        w: WidgetRect,
+        allow_focus: bool,
+        options: crate::InteractOptions,
+    ) -> Response {
         let interested_in_focus = w.enabled
             && w.sense.is_focusable()
             && self.memory(|mem| mem.allows_interaction(w.layer_id));
@@ -1238,7 +1243,7 @@ impl Context {
             // We add all widgets here, even non-interactive ones,
             // because we need this list not only for checking for blocking widgets,
             // but also to know when we have reached the widget we are checking for cover.
-            viewport.this_pass.widgets.insert(w.layer_id, w);
+            viewport.this_pass.widgets.insert(w.layer_id, w, options);
 
             if allow_focus && interested_in_focus {
                 ctx.memory.interested_in_focus(w.id, w.layer_id);

crates/egui/src/lib.rs

@@ -494,7 +494,7 @@ pub use self::{
     ui_builder::UiBuilder,
     ui_stack::*,
     viewport::*,
-    widget_rect::{WidgetRect, WidgetRects},
+    widget_rect::{InteractOptions, WidgetRect, WidgetRects},
     widget_text::{RichText, WidgetText},
     widgets::*,
 };

crates/egui/src/response.rs

@@ -738,6 +738,7 @@ impl Response {
                 enabled: self.enabled(),
             },
             true,
+            Default::default(),
         )
     }
 

crates/egui/src/ui.rs

@@ -180,6 +180,7 @@ impl Ui {
                 enabled: ui.enabled,
             },
             true,
+            Default::default(),
         );
 
         if disabled {
@@ -345,6 +346,7 @@ impl Ui {
                 enabled: child_ui.enabled,
             },
             true,
+            Default::default(),
         );
 
         child_ui
@@ -1025,6 +1027,17 @@ impl Ui {
 impl Ui {
     /// Check for clicks, drags and/or hover on a specific region of this [`Ui`].
     pub fn interact(&self, rect: Rect, id: Id, sense: Sense) -> Response {
+        self.interact_opt(rect, id, sense, Default::default())
+    }
+
+    /// Check for clicks, drags and/or hover on a specific region of this [`Ui`].
+    pub fn interact_opt(
+        &self,
+        rect: Rect,
+        id: Id,
+        sense: Sense,
+        options: crate::InteractOptions,
+    ) -> Response {
         self.ctx().register_accesskit_parent(id, self.unique_id);
 
         self.ctx().create_widget(
@@ -1037,6 +1050,7 @@ impl Ui {
                 enabled: self.enabled,
             },
             true,
+            options,
         )
     }
 
@@ -1105,6 +1119,7 @@ impl Ui {
                 enabled: self.enabled,
             },
             false,
+            Default::default(),
         );
         if self.should_close() {
             response.set_close();

crates/egui/src/widget_rect.rs

@@ -63,6 +63,21 @@ impl WidgetRect {
     }
 }
 
+/// How to handle multiple calls to [`crate::Response::interact`] and [`crate::Ui::interact_opt`].
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
+pub struct InteractOptions {
+    /// If we call interact on the same widget multiple times,
+    /// should we move it to the top on subsequent calls?
+    pub move_to_top: bool,
+}
+
+#[expect(clippy::derivable_impls)] // Nice to be explicit
+impl Default for InteractOptions {
+    fn default() -> Self {
+        Self { move_to_top: false }
+    }
+}
+
 /// Stores the [`WidgetRect`]s of all widgets generated during a single egui update/frame.
 ///
 /// All [`crate::Ui`]s have a [`WidgetRect`]. It is created in [`crate::Ui::new`] with [`Rect::NOTHING`]
@@ -140,13 +155,15 @@ impl WidgetRects {
     }
 
     /// Insert the given widget rect in the given layer.
-    pub fn insert(&mut self, layer_id: LayerId, widget_rect: WidgetRect) {
+    pub fn insert(&mut self, layer_id: LayerId, widget_rect: WidgetRect, options: InteractOptions) {
         let Self {
             by_layer,
             by_id,
             infos: _,
         } = self;
 
+        let InteractOptions { move_to_top } = options;
+
         let layer_widgets = by_layer.entry(layer_id).or_default();
 
         match by_id.entry(widget_rect.id) {
@@ -176,7 +193,13 @@ impl WidgetRects {
                 existing.enabled |= widget_rect.enabled;
 
                 if existing.layer_id == widget_rect.layer_id {
-                    layer_widgets[*idx_in_layer] = *existing;
+                    if move_to_top {
+                        layer_widgets.remove(*idx_in_layer);
+                        *idx_in_layer = layer_widgets.len();
+                        layer_widgets.push(*existing);
+                    } else {
+                        layer_widgets[*idx_in_layer] = *existing;
+                    }
                 }
             }
         }