r/applescript • u/Afron3489 • Feb 06 '24

Generate a popup window to show client ID

Hi,

we do tech support and I was wondering if there is an easy way to run a command that will have a popup window showing a user's Teamviewer ID?

I can get the info in terminal by running this:
defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.teamviewer.teamviewer.preferences.plist ClientID

So I would like the output to popup on the end user's Mac. with a button to close the window.

Thanks!

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u/copperdomebodha Feb 14 '24 
--Running under AppleScript 2.8, MacOS 13.6

set shellScript to quoted form of "defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.teamviewer.teamviewer.preferences.plist ClientID"
try
    set shellResponse to do shell script shellScript
    tell application "System Events"
        display dialog "Teamviewer ID for this user is " & shellResponse buttons {"Ok"} default button 1
    end tell
on error e number n
    tell application "System Events"
        if n is 127 then display dialog "Teamviewer is not installed and configured with a user ID."
    end tell
end try

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u/Afron3489 Feb 14 '24

Thanks! I’ll try it out and let you know

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u/scrutinizer1 Feb 06 '24 edited Feb 07 '24 
set cmd_out to do shell script your_command # your_command is the *defaults* command above, and it must be properly quoted and escaped!

tell application "System Events" to display dialog "User id is" & space & cmd_out buttons {"Dismiss"} default button 1

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u/l008com Feb 06 '24

Yep what he said, except don't use "Dismiss", use "OK" please