set theMailUsers to {”luke”}
choose from list theMailUsers with title “Choose the Mail account to use…”
set selectedMailUser to result as string
if selectedMailUser is “luke” then
set thePassword to “skywalker”
display dialog “Enter the password to acceess this account: ” default answer “”
set dialogInfo to result
set theAttempt to text returned of dialogInfo
if theAttempt is equal to thePassword then
tell application “Mail”
if application “Mail” is running then
quit
delay 1
end if
activate
delay 0
set enabled of account “luke” to true
end tell
else
tell application “Mail” to set enabled of account “luke” to false
display dialog “Incorrect password!” buttons {”OK”}
end if
end if

its like coding in matlab….loads of fun
Peace Kishan

Thanks so much!!

With Address Book, the only solution I can think of is a shell script to swap out the underlying Address Book database — which is very self-healing… so much so that this approach likely won’t work.

At any rate, I think if you want this much separation of data, a cost-benefit analysis would likely lead you to just create a different user login on your Mac.

In place of your statement:
display dialog "Choose the Mail account to use" buttons {"Jon", "Nicole"} default button 1 with icon note


Put this code to create a list box instead of a dialog box:
set theMailUsers to {"Jon", "Nicole", "Luke", "Leia", "Yoda", "Darth Vader"}
choose from list theMailUsers with title "Choose the Mail account to use..."
set selectedMailUser to result as string


Then, in place of each “if” statement, you’ll need a slightly different condition checker:
if selectedMailUser is "Jon" then
...
else if selectedMailUser is "Nicole" then
...
etc
...
end if


That will give you a list box at start-up to chose from instead of buttons. I’m not sure what the maximum number of list items is, but it should be enough for even the largest of families! Hope this helps!

Thanks for the reply. I’ve been trying the list box but have had no luck. I’ve never done any kind of programming be fore so not surprising I can’t get it to work.
What I have done in the mean time is split it into 2 applications one with 3 and one with 2 buttons.

Thanks for all the help this is great stuff.
This is why I love the internet!!

Or! D’uh, I should have thought of this. What about a list box? That should be pretty easy to do, although i don’t know how off the top of my head. I’ll try to look into it tonite — I know I have some sample code somewhere that does a list box…

Every time I try it Applescript gives me the error message “Maximum of 3 buttons allowed.”

Is this a version problem? I’m using applescript editor V. 2.1.1. Is there a later version that allows more than 3 buttons?