Your solution with a modal dialog box may be better. One thing that took some getting used to for me on Palm OS was that it is not multi-threading. So, even if your modeless dialog could pass a message back to the other form, the other form would not process it unless you returned control (or else, embedded your own event loop in the modeless dialog).
For a look at how the zdocj editor addressed the issue of a search box, try http://www.angelfire.com/ca2/roderick/zdocj/zdocj.htm I'm not saying my solution was better than what you had in mind, though, just that it may give you some ideas. -- For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
