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From: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster)
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Subject: Modeless Dialogs (was Multifinder & WDEFs)
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From: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster)
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Subject: Modeless Dialogs (was Multifinder & WDEFs)
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>OK, I agree that GetNewDialog and NewDialog can be used for modeless dialogs,
>but the important thing is that the DLOG resource has no way of specifying
>a window type other than modal-dialog. 

Absolutely untrue! just set the procType field to whatever you want. If
you read my prosting on getting background operation of MacTerminal under
multifinder, it gives an example.