>I am automating a download from Internet. I am using internetexplorer.application for that. The process is fully automated but
>sometimes I need to run it manually and I want to collect a few values from the user. I am using a modal form for that but the scripting process keeps going even with the form on the screen. How can suspend scripting untill I get data from the user?

How about checking, at convenient points in the script, whether IE is visible or not, or version(2) in VFP (assuming the script is VFP), then popping up a "continue/stop/do something else" dialog?