>Hi Raphael,
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>They are all created at startup and remain in memory till the program is ended. I merely SHOW and HIDE as necessary.
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>The order they are shown is exactly as you stated.
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>Then click the left SMALL and the left LARGE comes to the front. ???
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>This works exactly same way in reverse.
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>If I click the SMALL window that was SHOW'd last, there is no problem. If I click the SMALL window that was NOT SHOW'd last, I do have the problem.
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>Thanks,
>John

That makes sense. The last 'window' SHOWed would be the one that controls the area in question. Since LARGE includes the SMALL area, if LARGE is last than it would see the actions in SMALL and take it for itself.