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iChat screen name via AppleScript
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kainjow
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Mar 22, 2004, 12:12 PM
 
I am trying to get the screen name that is logged in on iChat using AppleScript and can't figure out how (or maybe it's not possible?).

This code works for me on iChat AV Beta 2.1 (v151) with 3 different screen names:

tell application "iChat"
set a to (handler of every account in (every service where name is "AIM") where status is available or status is away or status is idle)
display dialog last item in a as string
end tell

However a few other people have reported this code doesn't work and I am not able to test it out on other machines. Can anyone tell me if this shows your screen name? And what iChat version you're running?

(I'm writing a new iChat utility program...beta soon)
     
Tulkas
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Mar 25, 2004, 02:43 PM
 
Works fine in iChat 2.0 (although it doesn't respect groups).

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