Make Username and Password input box with AppleScript

Question

I would like to make a dialog input box that looks exactly like this in AppleScript:

Except without the picture in the top left of the lock.

Also, I need to be able to save both inputs.

I know I can use tell application "System Events" to display dialog "blah blah" default answer "" end tell but I can not find a way to have multiple and labeled fields.

Answer 1

Natively, AppleScript doesn't offer this capability as of OSX 10.10 .

To see what GUI operations are supported , check the User Interaction suite of the dictionary of the Standard Additions ( StandardAdditions.def , accessible from Script Editor.app via File > Open Dictionary... > StandardAdditions.osax ).

The closest approximation is a single input-field dialog - prompting for a password only - as follows (a limitation you've already noted in the question, but just to illustrate how to prompt for a password and how to use custom buttons ):

display dialog ¬
    "Installer is ..." default answer ¬
    "" buttons {"Cancel", "Install Software"} ¬
    default button 2 ¬
    with hidden answer

To get what you want, you need a third-party library such as Pashua .

Here's how you would define the requested dialog in Pashua and process the returned values:

# Define the dialog using a textual definition similar to a properties file.
set dlgDef to "
# Window title (if you don't set one explicitly (even if empty), it'll be 'Pashua')
*.title = 

# Add the hint (static text).
st.type = text
st.text = Installer is trying to install new software. Type your password to allow this.

# Add the username field.
tfn.type = textfield
tfn.label = Name:

# Add the password field.
tfp.type = password
tfp.label = Password:

# Add the buttons.
cb.type = cancelbutton
db.type = defaultbutton
db.label = Install Software
"

# Show the dialog. 
# Return value is a record whose keys are the element names from the dialog
# definition (e.g., "tfn" for the  usernam text field) and whose
# values are the values entered (for input fields) or 
# whether a given button was clicked or not ("1" or "0")
set theResult to showDialog(dlgDef, "")

# Process the returned values.
if cb of theResult is "1" then
    display alert "User canceled the dialog."
else
    display alert "name=[" & tfn of theResult & "]; password=[" & tfp of theResult & "]"
end if

The dialog will look like this:

---

Overview of setting up Pashua

^{Note: This is a simplified overview; for full instructions, see Read me.html and Documentation.html in the downloaded disc image.}

• Download and mount the disc image from http://www.bluem.net/en/mac/pashua/
• Place Pashua.app in /Applications , ~/Applications , or - in a pinch - in the same folder as the invoking script.
  • Pashua.app is the application that renders the dialogs (while a dialog is up, the menu bar shows Pashua ).
• Copy the bindings code (2 short handlers, showDialog and getPashuaPath ) from Examples/AppleScript/Pashua.scpt into your script.
  • Note: Due to a bug as of this writing, you must apply a small correction to handler getPashuaPath : replace line return (path to applications folder from system domain as text) & "Pashua.app" with return (path to applications folder from system domain as text) & "Pashua.app:" .
  • Alternatively, get the latest bindings code directly from the GitHub repo: https://github.com/BlueM/Pashua-Binding-AppleScript