Well, i've got a little command line utility (very small about 29kb) called KIXPOP that can display an embedded HTML page in a window using the Internet Explorer ActiveX control, it supports a timeout as well.

Your call whether a third party util is suitable here, but you can get it here:

KixPop.zip

Real easy to use, just unzip the contents into a folder, then run kixpop like this:

c:\> kixpop c:\kixpop\welcome.htm "hello world"

the timeout is set to three seconds. just make sure to specify the fully qualified path of the html file on the command line. you can also host the page off a web site, example:

c:\> kixpop http://www.kixtart.org

just an option.

-Shawn

ps. Les is right about the timeout - the welcome.htm in the zip file has it. But when running in the context of the web browser itself, might cause you grief in that it may display a messagebox asking if its ok to close the window.

Because KixPop wraps the ActiveX control, this is not an issue.

[ 04. April 2003, 22:49: Message edited by: Shawn ]