<div>I like to use Applescript to display windows because it is so easy. You can even call it from a shell script like so:</div><div><br></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">#!/bin/sh</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">#script your commands here</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">touch file1</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">#this is the window block</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">/usr/bin/osascript << EOF</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">tell application "Finder"</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"> activate</font></div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"> </font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">display dialog "Running Maintenance Tasks" buttons {"Finish IT!"} with icon caution</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">end tell</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">EOF</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"><br>
</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">#final command runs after button is pressed</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">touch file2</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">exit</font></div></div><div><br></div><div>Here is the pastebin link if the email gets munged. <a href="http://pastebin.com/m454c9c14">http://pastebin.com/m454c9c14</a></div>
<br clear="all">Ryan M. Manly<br>Mac OS X Expert<br>Glenbrook High Schools<br>1835 Landwehr Rd.<br>Glenview, IL 60026<br>(847) 486-4948<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Thomas Larkin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tlarki@kckps.org">tlarki@kckps.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">So, I am trying to run some automation with a bit of end user interaction. If I use the jamf displayMessage binary to display a message it will return the output back into terminal, but I can't seem to quite make the connection.</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">Basically I want to run the command along with other commands and then the user clicks on the OK button it will trigger the last or final command of the policy.</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">Here is what I got, proof of concept wise, but it is very very broken. Anyone else got any ideas?</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">#!/bin/bash</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">#test jamf display message command</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">selection=</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">/usr/sbin/jamf displayMessage -message "testing"</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">until [ "$selection" = "button returned: OK" ] ; do</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">case $selection in</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">"button returned:OK" ) /bin/echo "the test is over" ;;</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande"> esac</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Lucida Grande">done</font>
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