Fetch Softworks

Using Applescript and getting a password prompt (3 posts)

• Started 20 years ago by killingtime
• Latest reply 20 years ago from killingtime

• killingtime Member

  Hi there,

  I was wondering if anyone knows a way to get a prompt asking for a username and password from a user in AppleScript. I don't mind whether it is done from inside a "tell fetch" or not.

  Thanks!

  Posted 20 years ago #

• Jim Matthews Administrator

  You can use display dialog to ask for a username:

  set dialogResult to display dialog "Please enter a user name:"
  if button returned of dialogResult = "OK" then
  set username to text returned of dialogResult
  end if

  I searched the applescript-users mailing list ( http://search.lists.apple.com/applescript-users ) and found a reference to a scripting addition that lets you ask for a password. It's found at:

  http://osaxen.com/ask_password.html

  I haven't tried it myself.

  Thanks,

  Jim Matthews
  Fetch Softworks

  Posted 20 years ago #

• killingtime Member

  Thanks, I found, just incase someone else comes across the same problem, that I was having some problems with that script addition (compaining about syntax errors, I think because password is already a reserved command). Anyway I used askPassword from http://www.osaxen.com/system.html and that solved it just fine :).

  Thanks again.

  Posted 20 years ago #