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Having a modal dialogue does not mean that background tasks do not get time.
Whilst the modal dialogue is presented to the esteemed user, a certain
routine, ModalDialog, will be calling another routine, GetNextEvent, which
under MultiFinder, will cause time to be given to the background task.

Of course, if the user is holding down the mouse button for an extended
period of time, background tasks will be sad.

The modal dialogue (i.e. having a window with procID of dBoxProc) being front-
most in the front-most layer will prevent switching foreground tasks.  The 
reason that the statement is so specific is that I have mad MPW running
in background with a script which will bring up a modal dialog while MPW
is running as a background task.  I can switch between other layers but when
I switch into the MPW layer I must dismiss the modal dialog before I can
switch out of MPW.

Hope this helps.
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