TestStand child windows not in focus

I'm using the full featured User Interface TestExec.exe to run my test stand sequence file. In the file there is a step to prompt the operator. This prompt is showing up behind the TestExec window. This used to happen everyonce in awhile, but lately I would say out of 13 executions the prompt is behind the TestExec windows 11 times. When this happens the only way I can bring focus to the prompt is to click it in the windows bar at the bottom of the screen.
What would cause the prompt to pop-up behind the TestExec window?

If you are using TestStands message pop up step, you can edit this behavior by making it floating or modal.
Here is how TestStand defines them in thier help:
Dialog Options–Specifies miscellaneous options for the dialog
box.
Make Floating–Specifies whether the dialog box stays on top
of the TestStand application. You can interact with the main application window
while the dialog box is visible.
Make Modal–Specifies whether the dialog box is modal to the
TestStand application. You cannot interact with the main application window
until the dialog box is dismissed.
Here is a picture of where you would edit the dialog.
Test Engineer
L-3 Communications

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The same thing happens also when switching spaces - if I have a window with focus in one space, quickly switch to another to check something (without clicking anywhere) and then go back to the first one, I have to click in the window otherwise I can't write or send commands to it. Even though the cursor is in the window and blinking as if it had focus (if it is an input field).
A concrete example:
I am writing this text in Firefox in a textbox on a webpage. I switch spaces forth and back. The cursor is still in the textbox and blinking, but whatever I press nothing happens. Firefox is still the active application (it has the menubar).
I've tried searching, but wasn't lucky to find anything, is it just me?
BR,
stormmind

It work well in my system. Either on appletview and browser.
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-dav7
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How to keep playing when Premiere window not on focus?

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function(){return A.apply(null,[this].concat($A(arguments)))}
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This is something that has caused me to lose a lot of hair due to pulling it:
1. Open Premiere Pro on Windows (8.1, but that hardly matters, I think).
2. Open some video.
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4. Click the bottom-right corner of the screen to show your desktop.
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Without a doubt, I'm not the first person to be annoyed by this. In fact, I'm 99.99% sure that Adobe is well aware of this. Still, I have to make an attempt at reporting this, because it's crippled me every day for the last few years and made me really, really angry. I primarily associate Premiere Pro with frustration and anger at this point. I really hope there is a hidden preference to turn this madness off or something.
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Please tell me this is possible somehow. And please don't tell me to report this to Adobe with some form. I'm reporting it here and now, thanks. Plus, once again, I'm sure they know about this already. (If they don't, they aren't using their own software.)

I only asked two questions of you!!!
Both of them intended to get to a solution for you from understanding your workflow... .
Sheesh.
Don't understand why you put up with something that's made you go crazy"for years" and yet never mentioned by anyone else!
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