I'm hoping this question isn't too open ended. I'm trying to figure out the simplest way to do a particular bit of functionality in my program. Without going into too much detail about the program itself, what happens at the point in question is that an alert dialog pops up and once the user hits "Okay" on the dialog, a string gets written out to a file. In the method I wrote that does this, it indicates success or failure via a boolean. I am trying to figure out how I can indicate to the user if it was successful or not without having to make a whole other alert dialog but I'm not sure how to go about it. Can I just change the message text on the previous one and if I can then how do I go about making it stay long enough for the user to read it and then disappear either through user input or on its own? If I'm not being clear enough here I'll edit my question. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.