I have been using a wonderful application called 'Growl" to produce an alert everytime a script is run. However I do not want to have to install Growl on all my computers just to get a proper alert. I would like to produce a bezel similar to the one built into OSX for volume +/- and eject. Is it possible using applescript to bring up a bezel or alert window that will tell me when a particular script is running and will go away when the script has finished?
The translucent bezels you’re talking about are custom views implemented in Cocoa. Apple’s got an example project that shows how they can be built[1]:
http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/RoundTransparentWindow/RoundTransparentWindow.html
That’s a general “how to do the techniques required” example, but worth checking out. This is directly relevant:
http://peppermedia.net/cocoa/Bezel.zip
[1] The operating system’s bezels are in reality handled by BezelServices, but that’s a private, undocumented framework. I don’t know how to use it to draw the translucent bezels you seek. :-/
More stuff here (perhaps easier for you if you don’t have previous experience integrating obj-c stuff in AppleScript Studio):