Is this doable at a newbie level?

[Richard Gaskin]

Bob Sneidar wrote:

 > Your stack should have it's systemWindow property set to true, but
 > this will only float it above other LiveCode stacks. I don't think
 > there is a way to make it float above every application in the OS,
 > but I might be wrong there.

Floats above all windows, even those from other apps, in OS X, Windows, 
and Linux (at least on Ubuntu; haven't tested it elsewhere).

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