Child window behind parent window

[allSystemsGo]

Whenever I call my child window, it appears behind the parent. I cannot access the window at all...it appears in my task bar but I am unable to bring it to the front. Any suggestions? Thanks!

[water]

Use "parent" parameter when you create the second GUI. So the new GUI will become a true child of the parent.

[allSystemsGo]

I believe I am doing that...heres a bit of my code...

$main=GuiCreate("Catchy Title",500,300) ;; here is where the main (parent) window is createdGUICtrlCreateLabel("Global Settings",10,20)
GUICtrlCreateLabel("Station Settings",285,20)
$bEditGlobal=GuiCtrlCreateButton("Edit wnos.ini",10,50,100,30)
$bEditMac=GuiCtrlCreateButton("Add New",315,50,100,30)
$bAddMac=GuiCtrlCreateButton("Edit $mac.ini",315,90,100,30)
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)
;--------GUI is made!------------------------------
;--------Here is where all the action happens------
While 1
$msg=GUIGetMsg()
Select
Case $msg=$GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
ExitLoop
Case $msg=$bEditGlobal;;; Then a bit later I create the child from a While Loop, which calls a separate function
Call(editglobal())
GUISetState(@SW_DISABLE,$main)
GUISetState(@SW_HIDE,$main)


EndSelect
Wend
EndFunc

$aEdit=GuiCreate("wnos.ini",350,500,$main) ;;;this is from the editGlobal() which creates the new GUI window

Edited July 8, 2013 by allSystemsGo

[water]

Please check the help file. The parent handle has to be parameter 8.

[allSystemsGo]

Got it, thanks.

[water]

Now it works as desired?

[allSystemsGo]

Yes, it appears as it should. I have many more quirks to work out of it though. I am trying to make this part of the script a very simply text editor so that I do not have to call notepad...now trying to get it to be able to save any changes I made.

[water]

Did you search the forum for simple editors written in AutoIt? Maybe it is not necessary to reinvent the wheel?

[allSystemsGo]

I figured for this purpose it would be pretty simple. Basically just reads the same file into a box every time, and if changes are made a save button would erase the old file with the new. Nothing fancy. But I'll take a look.