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Asked: 2026-06-10T10:36:58+00:00

I am new to apple scripting and I have a simple apple script which

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I am new to apple scripting and I have a simple apple script which does below-

display dialog "Enter Your User Name:" default answer ""
set theUser to the text returned of the result

Now if the user enters nothing and clicks OK I do a check something like

if theUser = "" then
    display dialog "User name is mandatory" buttons {"OK"} with title "Missing parameter" with icon "stop"
    set theError to button returned of the result
    if theError is "OK" then quit
end if

But it gives me a Resource wasn't found. error popup when the if condition is checked. I have tries theUser is in {"",value missing}, theUser is missing value etc. but these don’t work either. Whats wrong here?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Stop should not be in quotes. I assume that you want the script to stop executing when you send a “quit” command. You can accomplish this by adding a cancel button parameter.

    display dialog "Enter Your User Name:" default answer ""
set theUser to the text returned of the result

if theUser = "" then
    display dialog "User name is mandatory" buttons {"OK"} default button {"OK"} cancel button {"OK"} with title "Missing parameter" with icon stop
end if
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