Objects Overlay within Flex (foreground/background)

Hello,
I am new to flex programming so please forgive me if this
question is out of place, newbish or just plain stupid.
Within my flex application, I want to change to a veiw, and
in that view I want to expand a panel, so that it fills the
majority of the application size.
The problem is when I resize this panel in the view, most
other objects in my application show over it, i.e. the panel itself
is not at the front of the foreground.
So my question is, how can I send the form object to the
front of hte object layers, is this possible at all?
Thanks in advance,
Matt.

Only Canvas (or Application or panel with layout='absolute')
allow children to overlap.
The simplest way to control ghis is the order in which the
children are rendered: the latest goes on top.
You might also look at the swapChildren() method of some
containers.
Tracy

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