>Any easy way to do that at the bottom of the screen?.
On the status bar? Here's a quickie basic idea:
cmessage = 'Hi There!'
for n = 1 to 50
cmessage = ' ' + cmessage
wait window '' time .2
set message to cmessage
endfor
The Anonymous Bureaucrat,
and frankly, quite content not to be
a member of either major US political party.