Forms Developer 4.5 - Bring display item to front at runtime

I have 10 square display items lined 2x5 to represent a rectangle shape on my form. The individual display items represent 10 positions on a pallet. Other display items are then used to represent an item that needs to placed onto a position on a pallet so affectivly your dragging a display item ontop of another display item.
My problem: It lets you drag the item onto it however it will not allow you to drag it back off. Even though it looks like your selecting the top item that is in focus, forms thinks your draggin the square behind it? How can I change the focus of display items at runtime?

Hi, unforunately the company I work for do not upgrade systems it would seem. The system is an old VAX running Oracle 7, the users interface to this is that old version of forms. I have successfully create one drag and drop interface for our users to make changes to the database however this one has different specification and in order for it to work I need to be able to place one display item on top of another. I have worked out how to do this and it works in a fashion however when dragged on top of the other display item it then disappears behind it. I need to bring it to the front at runtime... Any ideas?

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with both suggestions
1.
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2<=to_number((select decode(v(Leg_Req),'Y',1,0)+decode(v(maj_funct_chg),'Y',1,0)+
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2.
select (case when
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