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Message        ngmp          Post subject: keep object (canvas/placard) on 
topPosted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 10:29 am                         
Joined: Wed Jan 09, 2013 5:53 am
Posts: 10                FIrstly...

I did search for this but no answer seemed forthcoming!!. If the answer is 
elsewhere please just point me in the right direction and accept my apologies.

Secondly...the issue 

I have created a contextual menu in a listbox and everything is hunky dory 
except one thing. I am using celltag to "tag" the listbox entry. So imagine you 
click on a cell in the list box and the contextual menu gives you say 5 
choices. You pick one and off you go to the next bit. However I want the user 
to be able to click the cell (with the choice already there) and a new menu 
will be shown asking if these are mutliples of the same choice. e.g. 
Listbox cell empty  - right click
enter package 1 (for example) as choice from 5 packages.
Package1 appears in cell
Right click again and contextual menu asks if this is package 1a, 1b, 1c etc....

This does have a real life situation. In a lab if an instrument is used for 
many tests then the tests need to be assigned to Instrument 1 (say) but if 
instrument 1 is "full to capacity" then the lab need two instruments 1s so the 
same instrument but occuring twice and used for different things. 

(hope that's clear)

So when right clciking the second time I have build a "pop up " box using 
canvas, placard or groupbox (none are working onthis for me). My idea is to 
have the placard (say) visible with option for the user to input and ok and 
cancel buttons. I am using a textfield for input so on ok action it fills the 
celltag of the listbox cell with the relevant occurance. But each time the 
placard/canvas/groupbox appears (no problem until user clicks the input 
textfield) and I click textfield to make the choice the original listbox (which 
was in the background) comes back to the top (except the textfield) and 
obscures the canvas/placard/etc... I have tried looking at the focussing but to 
no available it always seems that the original listbox resurfaces to the top. I 
have "grouped" all the controls to the canvas so have assumed that if the 
canvas is on top then the control will be as well...does not seem to be the base

I cannot get the canvas/placard (with it's controls) to "stay on top" until 
made invisible. happens with scrollbars (in the background) in particular. 

ANy help on this? I am sure it's simple and I am expecting a homer simpson 
moment!?

Thanks a million guys/girls

Nick   
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