All Gameobject children of UIRoot layer name changes

[arkon3]

Whenever I create a child of UIRoot it gets the layer name of the parent when you run the app. I set the layer name to something else and it always changes back at runtime. How can I stop this behaviour?

I use NGUI as my sprite engine and want certain sprites to be on different layer names.

[ArenMook]

This is forced, and intentional. All widgets belonging to a panel will assume the panel's layer. The panel is basically one whole object. You can't have it made up of different layered parts.

If you want to use different layers, use different panels.