A "modeless" dialog is like a Modal Dialog Box Control except that it does not command the focus and does suspend the operation of the main program or other dialogs). To create, use MBF_DIALOG+MBF_MODELESS. The ending row and column of a modeless dialog may be beyond the limits of the screen or window. These dialogs are mainly useful for displaying information that is not critical to the main window, allowing the user to push it out of the way if desired.

See the TSTSCR, XTRA4, and XTRA5 sample programs in the SOSLIB for examples of using modeless dialogs to display scrolling status messages regarding the program operation.

SCRSTS.SBX 1.1(103) supports an option to create the modeless dialog automatically (which is well used in the above sample programs.)