Ok, I get it.
But the dialog does NOT keep it's settings. I issued
_CLIPTEXT = LOWER(GETPICT())
in the Command Window, set the view to Thumbnails, and selected
an image. Then I repeated the process, and the dialog came up
in View mode, not Thumbnails.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind
public class SystemCrasher :ICrashable
In addition, an integer field is not for irrational people