If we want to make a pop-up dialog component when we writing a script on Mac OS, we can use dialog to show a simple window. In additional to this, dialog allow us to set different button to interact with users.
How to use Dialog
Display Message
The simplest method is use message and dialog (default have two buttons).
set Message to "You have a new message!" display dialog Message
Output:
Add a icon before message
If you feel it’s too monotonous, you can insert some icons to let the window looks richer. There are three default icons you can select: note, stop and caution.
note icon
set Message to "You have a new message!" display dialog Message with icon note
Output:
stop 圖示
set Message to "You have a new message!" display dialog Message with icon stop
Output:
caution 圖示
set Message to "You have a new message!" display dialog Message with icon caution
Output:
Customize button, and get the button return information
Sometimes maybe we need to make different script function according user select different button. In this way, we can use the following code to get the information of button that user pressed.
C而有時候我們會需要依照使用者選擇了不同的按鈕而做出不同的腳本功能。這時候我們可以使用以下程式碼取得使用者按下的按鈕資訊。
set Message to "You have a new message!" set ButtonResult to the button returned of (display dialog Message buttons {"Cancel", "OK"} default button "OK" cancel button "Cancel") # Button Result display dialog ButtonResult
Output:
References
- https://alvinalexander.com/blog/post/mac-os-x/applescript-customizing-dialog-boxes/
- https://macmule.com/2015/10/17/coretypes-bundle-icons-for-dialogs-scripts-slides-self-service-munki-managed-software-center/
- https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/LanguagesUtilities/Conceptual/MacAutomationScriptingGuide/DisplayDialogsandAlerts.html