[vtkusers] disappearing windows in Java w/vtk

[Christopher M. Navarro]

I have a JFrame that contains a vtkCanvas object and then another JFrame 
that has a control window with widgets for turning things on and off, etc.  
The problem I am having shows up on my Windows XP system where if I move 
the control palette frame over the frame that contains the vtkCanvas 
object and then move the mouse out of the palette frame and into the frame 
containing the vtkCanvas, the palette frame disappears behind the frame 
containing the vtk object(s).  I'm pretty sure its a window management  
thing since on my linux box I don't have this problem.  It gets pretty 
annoying when you have to move things around so that the vtk frame doesn't 
hide other windows or you will lose visibility of them when they lose 
focus.  Is there something on the java side that can keep this from 
happening?  It would be nice to be able to have one window over another 
and have it stay that way when the focus moves to the vtkframe so 
multiple windows can be seen without them being completely separated.  
I've thought about doing something like TestInternalFrames.java but I was 
wondering if there is a quicker fix.  Thanks.

p.s. using a recent vtk nightly on redhat 9 & windows xp as my test 
systems.

regards,

chris