Okay, after the ringing endorsement from Gary, I'm ready to look closer 
into it.  Can someone share a web address?

R,

John A.M. Darnell
Project Leader
Internal Software Development
Walsworth Publishing Company

Trivia question:  In Robert Heinlein's Children's classic, "The Star 
Beast," Lummox was growing what as a hobby?

Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]> wrote on 
02/03/2006 02:52:09 PM:

> "pete boardman" wrote:
> 
> > On 3 Feb 2006, at 17:13, John A.M. Darnell wrote:
> > 
> >> The code that mounts, however, has a definite beginnning and end. I
> >> would like to toss up a dialog just before initiating the process, 
and
> >> then remove the dialog after the process is complete.  Is there any
> >> way to
> >> do something likek that?
> > 
> > You could consider using Growl as a notification tool - very easy to
> > use from AppleScript or elsewhere. I use it for email and other
> > stuff, so once installed you find other uses for it.
> 
> Good suggestion.  Growl is showing up as a preference feature in a 
number of
> useful applications and utilities, so users with the Growl preference 
pane
> installed can take their notifications this way if they choose.
> 
> Font Manager is one example of a daily-used utility which can post its
> notifications to Growl. I use it a lot for folder action reporting, for 
some
> self-filing actions which can take a couple of minutes of background
> processing. Notifications are possible from a range of MacOS programming
> languages, so it can be used throughout one's range of work tools.
> 
> Implementation in AS is quite easy, but if it's not a task that comes
> together for you right away, I'd be happy to share some handlers and 
other
> short wrappers I've written.
> 
> (Not everyone is a fan of Growl, of course. When a number of 
applications
> are posting notices, they accumulate on screen, which gives some folks 
"the
> UI willies".)
> --
> Gary