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