Way to get user name?

[Rothrock]

Is there anyplace where the user name is stored and can be accessed by javascript? I doubt that it is stored anywhere that is accessible to the script.

Other than opening a dialog and asking for user entry is there any way that it could be made automagic?

[moluapple · Accepted solution]

See http://forums.adobe.com/message/1109507#1109507

[Rothrock]

Thank you so much. I had seen the $ (Class?) and taken a peek through its methods and properties using the object model viewer. I had seen getenv(), but didn't know how to use it—or really most of the other stuff in there.

$.getenv (name: string 😞 string

Core JavaScript Classes

Retrieves the value of an environment variable.

name: Data Type: string

The name of the variable.

The help says this about $.getEnv(), but how do I find the different strings for the environment variables?

[moluapple]

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment_variable

In Windows, all in Default Values on Microsoft Windows table are valid strings.

var environVar = ["ALLUSERSPROFILE", "PROGRAMDATA", "APPDATA", "COMPUTERNAME", "COMMONPROGRAMFILES", "COMMONPROGRAMFILES(x86)", "COMSPEC", "HOMEDRIVE", "HOMEPATH", "LOCALAPPDATA", "LOGONSERVER", "PATH", "PATHEXT", "PROGRAMFILES", "PROGRAMFILES(X86)", "PROMPT", "SystemDrive", "SystemRoot", "TEMP", "USERDOMAIN", "USERNAME", "USERPROFILE", "WINDIR", "PUBLIC", "PROGRAMDATA", "PSModulePath"],      i = 0, len = environVar.length; for (; i< len; i++){      $.writeln(environVar + ': ' + $.getenv(environVar)); }