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I am very new to AppleScript. I am writing a bash script and I need the user type a CAPTCHA. I am trying to use AppleScript to show a dialog with the CAPTCHA image (a simple .png image) and a text input box to the user and then get the result.
AppleScript’s native dialog display facilities (aka display dialog and display alert) are rather limited and won’t allow you to display an image, unless you define it as an OS X icon file (
.icns) of the right size, which might not be very practical for a captcha.However, there is at least one alternative I am aware of: Carsten Blüm’s Pashua will allow you to create native Cocoa dialogs containing both
textfieldandimageelements. As these are defined in a DSL and created by Pashua, they can be used straight from a shell script (no need to interpose AppleScript – check out the documentation and example shell script distributed with Pashua).