The mini-map and HUDs

I posted this in the blogs yesterday as I was already logged-in there. The forums usually provide better answers though, so I'm expecting great things of you:

1. When displayed the mini-map appears on top of all other objects. I've tested adjusting the 'depth' position of HUD objects and there seems to be a limit of 3.5m +/-. That's fine for overlaying HUD-elements in front of each other but is there a way to put anything in front of the mini-map (or set the mini-map behind something)? Failing that, is there a way to change the mini-map's opacity so something can show through?

2. Although the mini-map zoom-level can be varied using the mouse-wheel its scale is fixed for each of the three preset zooms; close, medium and far. Stretching the mini-map changes the range but leaves the scale the same. What are those three scales, preferably in relation to a 0.1m HUD object?

I specifically want to overlay information on the mini-map if possible. Even having hovertext visible would be a start. Ideas? Go

1. Yeah, floater windows are separate from HUD objects, can't get there from here.

The opacity stuff can be changed but it's a little mucky. You can tweak it in skins/default/colors_base.xml (alter the path if you use another skin). You will find parameters NetMapBackgroundColor and a few below that, the last number is what you would want to tweak (0 for clear, 255 for solid).

2. The size presets are variable, they depend on the UI size you set in the preferences and aren't a fixed scale. Also, the small/medium/large act differently in different viewers; Snowglobe and Emerald do it differently from SL 1.23 (the former two cover a larger zoom range).

Never mind, I got it wrong

Thank you Viktoria. Even "Can't get there from here" is good because I can forget it and get on with something else now, at least I know now

Onwards to plan 64 C!