[AIR] May I catch "bring window to front" event?

Hi,
I wonder who is responsible for bringing windows to front when user click on that window (application contains more Windows components inside). Is it operating system or AIR runtime? Or perhaps AIR runtime send event to operating system which does it? In this case there would be some chance to catch and stop propagation of that event not to let operating system bring that window to front. Am I right? Any idea how to do it?
//pyso

This thread explains my experiences with the toFront() method on Windows 98. It works, but only if the frame has been hidden for about 20 seconds.
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jsp?forum=57&thread=426257

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