Moving Modal Panels without Title Bars

We have custom modal dialog boxes without Title Bars that we want to be able to move around the display by dragging and dropping in the usual way but by left clicking on the panel background rather than the title bar.
Programmatically I appear to have to re-position the front panel and all of the display/control elements on that panel fo every move step, is this right or is there an easier way?
Does anyone have any thoughts?
Regards
Steve
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Hi Chris,
you're answer came close, I modified it a bit to be more accurate. The things I've done are:
move the location reading into the event structure (it's better correlated, in the time-out you had a lag of 10 ms.)
set the timeout to -1 when the mouse is inside the pane (mouse-enter and mouse-leave events)
Then I'd thought wouldn't it be nice if this code can be a sub-vi called on a mouse-down event?
That worked BUT in the subvi there are no events generated on the pane class, althought dynamic registration worked I can't seem to trigger events...
So the sub-vi works but only because of the time-out case....
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