M E R Goulding Software Development

I had to work out the LAN IP for the machine my app is running on because the IP is needed to enter into an iPhone app so it can sync to the desktop. This is just an temporary measure while we implement zeroconf. Here’s a little modification of Ken Ray’s great GetMACAddress function to return the LAN IP.

function getLANIP
   -- value to return
   local retVal,tCard,ifConfigs,winExists,sys32Exists,temp
   set the itemDel to "."
   switch (the platform)
      case "MacOS"
         if item 1 of the systemVersion <10 then
            return ""
         else
            -- OS X
            repeat with X=1 to 10
               put "en"&X into tCard
               put shell("ifconfig "&tCard) into ifConfigs
               if char 1 to 9 of ifConfigs = "ifconfigs:" then
                  exit repeat
               else if char 1 to 4 of ifConfigs = "zsh:" then
                  return ""
               else
                  get matchText(ifconfigs,"(?s)inet (.*?) ",retVal) -- These are spaces on either side of (.*?)
                  if it is false then
                     return ""
                  else
                     exit repeat
                  end if
               end if
            end repeat
         end if
         break
      case "Win32"
         -- All Windows
         put (there is a file (specialFolderPath("system") & "/IPCONFIG.EXE")) into winExists
         put (there is a file (specialFolderPath("system") & "/SYSTEM32/IPCONFIG.EXE")) into sys32Exists
         if winExists or sys32Exists then
            set the hideConsoleWindows to true
            put shell("ipconfig /all") into temp
            if word 2 of systemVersion() < 6 then
               get matchText(temp,"IP Address[\. ]*: ([A-Z0-9-.]*)",retVal)
            else
               get matchText(temp,"IPv4 Address[\. ]*: ([A-Z0-9-.]*)",retVal)
            end if
         else
            return ""
         end if
         break
   end switch
   return retVal
end getLANIP