Alternatives to "dialog box" for on screen notification

I would like to activate a small notice on screen while my script is working. This will prevent others from doing work on the machine while its doing its magic in the background. The "dialog box" stops background tasks from happening. I found iNotify, but the product is no more. Any alternatives to a dialog box? Thanks - J

I think CB wants to lock the screen so that others can't use the machine while the script is running (though I can't quite imagine why - macs are designed to multi-task). I don't know of a way to do that in a normal user account from applescript. if that's what you're after, you'll probably either want to write a cocoa shell for your applescript that takes over and locks down the screen, or else you'll want to restart into a special user account that has no GUI, run your script, then reboot into the user's account.

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