Allow relative layering of children
Initially we had hoped not to go down this route in order to produce the most understandable model, but in the end it seems to be the most sane way to satisfy some existing use cases from the WM. In particular we have the use case of the IME. The IME may of course be larger than the application it is targetting, in particular we see this in side by side split-screen portrait and freeform. However, various UI features such as the text drag handles, spell checking popups, etc, are controlled by the application process and modelled as child windows of the application. This is a good fit for them as they need to inherit most properties of the application window: Cropping, Transform, Alpha. However they need to appear over the IME! As the IME can't be a child of the application (it is bigger), we now see our use case for relative layering. Perhaps the drag handles could be reimplemented as controlled by the IME process but if nothing else as a legacy API we have exposed the idea of child windows of the app going over the IME and are likely to need to continue to support it in some mode. Test: Transaction_test.cpp Change-Id: If2d831bcbe88fc753b02c044a57882cca6ccffbb
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