Modal-like dialog box without using "modal"?

[Ken Ray]

> I want to stop the user from doing anything else, i.e. I want the 
> dialog box to be "modal".  But if I make the dialog box 
> modal, the make 
> thumbnail process stops running.

Oh, one other possibility is to move the "make thumbnail" process *to* the
modal dialog and leave the progress dialog modal...

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/