Get Custom Icon to show in AppleScript Dialog Box

[jrogersnh]

Hey All - 

I'm trying to get the icon that we utilize for our Self Service portal (located at /Library/Application Support/com.jamfsoftware.selfservice.mac/Documents/Images) to display when calling a custom "Display Dialog" AppleScript popup from within a Bash script.

Current code looks like:

#!/bin/bash

#get logged in user info
loggedInUser=`/bin/ls -l /dev/console | /usr/bin/awk '{ print $3 }'`
loggedInUserUID=$(id -u "$loggedInUser")

userPopup="set input to \
(display dialog \
\"blah blah blah\" \
with title \"xxxxxx\" \
with icon POSIX file \"/Library/Application Support/com.jamfsoftware.selfservice.mac/Documents/Images/brandingimage_asTest.icns\")"

prompt=$( /bin/launchctl asuser $loggedInUserUID sudo -u "$loggedInUser" /usr/bin/osascript -e "$userPopup" )

which errors out with this:

execution error: Can’t make file "Macintosh HD:Library:Application Support:com.jamfsoftware.selfservice.mac:Documents:Images:brandingimage_asTest.icns" into type number or string. (-1700)

However, if I copy the same file to the Desktop and run this code snippet, it works perfectly:

#!/bin/bash

#get logged in user info
loggedInUser=`/bin/ls -l /dev/console | /usr/bin/awk '{ print $3 }'`
loggedInUserUID=$(id -u "$loggedInUser")

userPopup="set input to \
(display dialog \
\"blah blah blah\" \
with title \"xxxxxx\" \
with icon POSIX file \"/Users/<username>/Desktop/brandingimage_asTest.icns\")"

prompt=$( /bin/launchctl asuser $loggedInUserUID sudo -u "$loggedInUser" /usr/bin/osascript -e "$userPopup" )

I should also mention I have tried both methods without specifying POSIX file and utilizing normal AppleScript method and the same behavior occurs.

Does anyone know a way to make this work while utilizing a non-user filepath? Or is this just a pitfall of using apple script?

[talkingmoose]

See if this snippet helps. Replace my path with yours.

#!/bin/bash

theCommand='display dialog "blah blah blah" with title "Blah Title" with icon posix file "/Applications/Self Service.app/Contents/Resources/AppIcon.icns"'

/usr/bin/osascript -e "$theCommand"

This is a great way to cleanly spell out the entire one-line AppleScript command without having to escape so many quotes.

[jrogersnh]

Thanks for the reply! Definitely cleaner than mine, so I appreciate that. 

This works, however, that AppIcon.icns file is the generic Jamf logo for Self-Service. I'm looking to apply our custom self service icon, which to my knowledge is only found in "/Library/Application Support/com.jamfsoftware.selfservice.mac/Documents/Images". Is there another area within the /Applications/Self Service.app/Contents directory that the custom icon might live?

Thank you!

[talkingmoose]

If you navigate to the directory you mention, do you actually see it there? The custom branding images should live in the end user's home folder "~/Library/Application Support/com.jamfsoftware.selfservice.mac/Documents/Images/brandingimage.png" not the top level Library folder.

[jrogersnh]

Yes, I see the custom company icon in both areas - both the public /Library/Application Support/ filepath as well as the user ~/Library/application support folder. I'm getting a specific apple script error using these paths:

execution error: Can’t make file ":~:Library:Application Support:com.jamfsoftware.selfservice.mac:Documents:Images:brandingimage_asTest.icns" into type number or string. (-1700)

[talkingmoose · Accepted solution]

So, the end results of that path is a mix of POSIX and non-POSIX, which won't work. AppleScript doesn't understand UNIX pathing, so we probably need to convert the tilde to a path and then concatenate it and the rest of the path.

set homePath to do shell script "echo $HOME"

-- e.g. "/Users/talkingmoose"

display dialog "blah blah blah" with title "Blah Title" with icon POSIX file (homePath & "/Library/Application Support/com.jamfsoftware.selfservice.mac/Documents/Images/brandingimage.png" as string)

-- e.g. "/Users/talkingmoose/Library/Application Support/com.jamfsoftware.selfservice.mac/Documents/Images/brandingimage.png"

See if that gets you what you need.

[jrogersnh]

This worked! What a champion - thank you so much for the help.