Who's on top?

In win32, is it the order in which the windows are created that dictates which is on top? More specifically, I have a main window which creates several child windows, one child window of which I would like to spawn a child window. When I try it, I can't see the last child window.

I am a novice at windows so there are many other reasons it may not be there, but one thing I just plain ol' don't know is what dictates the order of overlapping and does painting of windows below a child draw over the topmost child. Does the order of who's on top remain the same through out the run of the program, or does that change too?

Thanks in advance

z-order.

That should explain the relationship, read the rest of that page for functions that can be used to find or modify the z-order, for example SetWindowPos and BringWindowToTop.

That's exactly what I wanted to know!

Thanks