alerts

[DunbarX at aol.com]

I reread your post. I might still be confused by "without user interaction 
when the action is complete". Is "the action" just the showing of the 
dialog?

But if all you want is to show some sort of dialog, and then dismiss it, 
just:

showYourDialog
   wait 120--or whatever
hideYourDialog

Is your dialog a substack? A field? That is why I rolled it all into 
"showYourDialog" instead of, say "show field yourField". Ask again if I am way off 
base.