Bob Arning  <arning at charm.net> writes:

> On 07 Sep 2003 02:14:10 +0200 Martin Drautzburg <martin.drautzburg at web.de> wrote:
> 
> >FileList2 modalFileSelector opens a dialog, but I can do all sorts of
> >other things like  raise a window or open the WorldMenu. I was
> >thinking that "modal" means that this should not be possible. What am
> >I missing ?
> 
> It means simply that whatever bit of code requested the dialog is suspended until an answer is received from the dialog. Everything else continues as normal.

Okay I understand that the world menu works. But how can I block an
"application" until the modal dialog has exited ? I mean like
evenything that is in a SystemWindow.