external applications from within

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Eikon
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What your describing is called a modal child window. To make another application a child to a blitz window takes some API work:

http://www.blitzcoder.com/cgi-bin/ubb-cgi/postdisplay.cgi?forum=Forum6&topic=001433

To make it modal, that is, to have it steal focus and stay above the blitz app, i'm not so sure about. Maybe someone else can help with that bit.