Cacading Forms - Positioning

I am working on a project to produce labels and work instructions for a manufacturing process. This part of the project generates a bill of materials. It is a two-step process. Clicking the add button brings up a form that shows the available materials and has a series of cascading drop downs. Select a material then click on the thickness list box and it will show you the thickness that this material comes in and so on.

Use Material 2. Some of the other materials have data issues that cause the program to error out.

Once you selected each of the boxes, click on the commit button and a second form comes up with this information (plus others) filled in. Then the user can fill in the rest of the information or even override the existing information.

All of this is irrelevant but it does tell you how to navigate the system to demonstrate the issue.

I want to show the second form slightly offset from the first form. The first form has .top = 100 and .left = 100. The second form has .top = 120 and .left = 120. The second form comes up left aligned with the first form, and apparently in the middle of the screen. The .top and .left seem to be ignored. Is this a "feature" or is there a way to work around this?

I like the idea of setting things up before launching the form instead of when initializing it after lauch. I tried this

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Without any change in the result.