widget placement (please donīt bury me)

[Jim Edwards <jimedwards altavista com>]

Hi,

I have an application that has a main drawing area which is the focus of
most of the users interaction.   It would be nice if I could specify
that other widgets (of the same application) should not open over that
area unless there is no place else to open - this includes transient
windows for the application.  Does anyone have any suggestions for how
to do this?

thanks,
Jim