When I go to activate my text box, my objects and monsters aren't covered up by it. It doesn't seem to happen in Joe's tutorials, so I have no idea what's going on.
Note that I haven't modified the scripts that handle the text.
The objects always render in front of the text box... I think even in Joe's tutorial videos.
(except in the 4.0 ones... because in that old version, all the objects was hidden when the textbox displayed)