AppleScript – Changing Width of Dialog Box and Adding Text

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I have a normal display dialog working using AppleScript within the Editor. How would one increase the width of the display dialog and add text under the input field and above the buttons. In advance, thank you for your time.

display dialog "EXAMPLE" with icon alias ((path to me) & "Contents:Resources:ICON.icns" as string) default answer (do shell script "SHELL SCRIPT HERE " & quoted form of (text returned of (display dialog "Enter String:" default answer "" buttons {"OK"} default button 1 with title "EXAMPLE"))) buttons {"OK"} default button 1 with title "EXAMPLE"

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You can't control this with vanilla AppleScript. There may be a plugin/hack that lets you do this, but I haven't found one.

The best way to accomplish this is to use Xcode and AppleScriptObjectiveC.
Tutorials and a book on that are available here.

Probably not.

I would imagine that the lock screen is locked down fairly tight - imagine a piece of malware that did just that - except the Automator action sent the password to a server in Bangladesh.

Applescript to fill in Keychain dialog box

Consider altering the requirement for a password. Printers on Mac OS X are managed by the Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) and it is highly configurable.

Mac OS X Hints published this, Disable printer queue password requirements, for disabling printer queue passwords. It should work for modern versions of OS X:

As root, or in a Terminal session with su privileges, edit /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.

Find the section below.

Remove the items you don't want limited: Pause-Printer, Resume-Printer, Pause-Printer-After-Current-Job, etc.

Save the file, quit the editor, and restart your computer

Section to find and edit:

  <Limit Pause-Printer Resume-Printer Enable-Printer Disable-Printer Pause-Printer-After-Current-Job Hold-New-Jobs Release-Held-New-Jobs Deactivate-Printer Activate-Printer Res
tart-Printer Shutdown-Printer Startup-Printer Promote-Job Schedule-Job-After CUPS-Accept-Jobs CUPS-Reject-Jobs>
      AuthType Default
      Require user @AUTHKEY(system.print.admin) @admin @lpadmin
      Order deny,allow
  </Limit>

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Probably not.

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