Gui Debate, need some suggestions.

[Braydo25]

I've been working on a gui for lunar crescent for a few days, its looking really nice, photoshopped, effects, everything. I'm shrinking the game window to incorporate just the display screen where chars walk around and stuff, and a partial dx gui tacked on to it. But for the gui and this is the question I have, for inventory, equipment, etc windows, should they pop-up outside of the main game window? or within the main game display screen.

I would be making them display within the display screen but sadly i dont have time to swap out dx7 for dx8 to incorporate alpha blending to make it look better.

so pop up windows outside the main game window, or pop up windows within the main display screen?