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.