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From: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: multitasking and IPC (was: System 8.0: no more DA's.)
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Date: 12 Jan 89 03:17:48 GMT
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In article <482@pyuxf.UUCP> asg@pyuxf.UUCP (alan geller) writes:
>	Or, alternatively, would it be possible to create a type of dialog
>		that would be 'layer modal' rather than 'system modal'; 
Sure, just use ResEdit to change the type of the window from "1" to "3" in
its DLOG resource.  It will come up with a slightly different window
border, you'll be able to swap out under multi-finder, but the underlying
application, calling ModalDialog() as it does, will be layer model.

I've used this technique to modify terminal emulators to download in
background.  (you may also need to set the "can Background" bit in the
size resource, so the terminal emulator will get some time, while it is
not the top application.

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