How to mount volume with feedback?

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
#1

I want to mount a network volume, and I want a dialog box to display, “Mounting Shared Drive”. I don’t want to use

display dialog

becuase the user will have to click a button. Is there anyway to have a notification dialog box diaply while the action is being performed, and then go away upon successful completion? Also, can I have another message come up if the action fails? My code so far is below. Thank you!


with timeout of 10 seconds

--display something like "Mounting volume"	

	try
		mount volume "smb://guest:nopass@some.share"

--if there is an error display something like "unable to mount network volume"
		
	end try
	
end timeout
#2 
with timeout of 10 seconds
--display something like "Mounting volume"    
   try
       mount volume "smb://guest:nopass@some.share"

   on error

   --if there is an error display something like "unable to mount network volume"
     display alert "Failed to Mount" as warning giving up after 1

   end try

end timeout

with network shares i normaly do something like this


set pingResult to do shell script "ping -c 1 192.168.0.2"
if pingResult contains " 0% Packet" then
--do the script here.
end if
#3

Thank you for the reply. Is the first part possible (displaying a message “Mounting Share” without the user having to click a button to dismiss the message)?

Thanks again.

#4

the “with timeout of 10 seconds” bit will dismiss the dialog without any user interaction. The user can dismiss it before then, but doesn’t have to.