Floating Windows on playGui

For my game (an RPG), I have been messing around with "floating windows". What I have been trying to accomplish is a guiWindowCtrl that "floats" on the playGui (or whatever that gui is named in my project). This means that the windows it there, it is resizable (or not depending on how I want it), and it doesn't block input (mouse and keyboard) to the playGui.

I have tried two ways, and they both failed.

Method One:
A guiWindowCtrl inside a guiControl (I knew this one wouldn't work, but it is how I am used to making GUIs in Torque).

Such as

new GuiControl(spellbookDlgg) {
   profile = "GuiDefaultProfile";
   horizSizing = "right";
   vertSizing = "bottom";
   position = "0 0";
   extent = "640 480";
   minExtent = "8 2";
   visible = "1";

   new GuiWindowCtrl() {
      profile = "InventoryProfile";
      horizSizing = "right";
      vertSizing = "bottom";
      position = "2 -2";
      extent = "621 476";
      minExtent = "8 2";
      visible = "1";
      text = "Inventory";
      maxLength = "255";
      resizeWidth = "1";
      resizeHeight = "1";
      canMove = "1";
      canClose = "1";
      canMinimize = "1";
      canMaximize = "1";
      minSize = "50 50";
      CloseCommand = "spellbookDlg::toggle();";
   };
};

Method Two: A guiWindowCtrl added to the playGui.

For me, this did not work, all it did was create a window that wouldn't accept focus (I think it may be because the shapeNameHud is blocking it).

new GuiWindowCtrl(spellbookDlg) {
   profile = "FloatingWindowProfile";
   horizSizing = "center";
   vertSizing = "center";
   position = "250 180";
   extent = "140 120";
   minExtent = "140 120";
   visible = "0";
   lockMouse = "0";
   text = "Spellbook";
   maxLength = "255";
   resizeWidth = "1";
   resizeHeight = "1";
   canMove = "1";
   canClose = "1";
   canMinimize = "1";
   canMaximize = "0";
   minSize = "140 120";
   closeCommand = "toggle(SpellbookDlg);";
};

Anyone have any suggestions (or confirmations that is is the ShapeNameHud. I will be testing the ShapeNameHud possibility).

Robert Pierce