How do I determine layers in respect to entities vs. images?

Case in point:
I load my image box.

I spawn my entity (an arrow where z0 = pure transparent image, z1 = the arrow, I use z0 to turn it off, z1 to turn it on)

I set entitymove(cursor,'z1'); to make it visible

I alter entity.x and entity.y for it to set where it goes

When the menu is opened, it draws the image box, then printstring's the options.

At this point I want my arrow in front of the first option, but it doesn't render, and I know that it's covered up by the image box. I want the entity on TOP of the image box, but as far as I know, once an active VC file spawns an entity, you can't unspawn it, so I can't spawn it every time I draw that box, or else moving through the menus will generate like 50 cursors... I think... I dunno, can I tell an entity to be on a certain layer and other stuff to be on a different layer, then render the layers in that order? How do I go about fixing this?

Glez

It sounds like you're entity is your mouse cursor? If this is so... you do not want this. You want to have a image and just tblit it onto the screen.

Sorry, let me be a little more specific:

How do I specify which layer I'm drawing the image to, to be sure I'm drawing it underneath the entity layer?

Glez

the code works like this, you have a rstring like 12RE34 and then the DualRetrace adds a R to the end so you have 12RE34R which will call the retraced function twice per cycle. The dualretrace keeps track of which retrace it's on and calls the different retrace functions acordingly. hookretrace1 would be the first retrace in the cycle, aka the retrace under the entity.