How can I access the Windows logged in user name ?

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Stephane R asked Dec 12, '19 Stephane R commented Dec 12, '19

How can I access the Windows logged in user name ?

I'm trying to access the Windows user name from inside FlexScript.

Either outputs of 'echo %username%' or 'whoami' would work for me.

I've tried to use runprogram("whoami") ; which returned a success code; but how do I retrieve the output of the command ?

Is there a simpler method ? Would the model already have a node with that info somewhere ?

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FlexSim 19.0.6

windows 10 username whoami

Answer 1 · 2019-12-12T16:53:56Z

Braydn T answered Dec 12, '19 Stephane R commented Dec 12, '19

@Stephane R The Windows command "whoami" just prints the current user to the terminal. The Flexscript command runprogram() just runs whatever program you specify. To get it into FlexSim you will have to create a .exe that you can run that will run "whoami", copy the output, and then import it into FlexSim.

Alternatively you could use the command userdatadir(), which returns the current user's roaming directory. The user name is displayed in that path.

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Phil BoBo ♦♦ commented · Dec 12, 2019 at 05:06 PM

Here's a script that will parse the user name out of userdatadir():

string dir = userdatadir();
int startIndex = dir.indexOf("Users") + 6;
string trimDir = dir.substr(startIndex, dir.length - startIndex);
int endIndex = trimDir.indexOf("\\") - 1;
string username = trimDir.substr(1, endIndex);
return username;

Alternatively, you could use the C++ GetUserName() function to get the user name. You would need to use the DLL Maker to call C++ code though. I'm not aware of a good way to get the user name from FlexScript.

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Stephane R Phil BoBo ♦♦ commented · Dec 12, 2019 at 05:41 PM

The userdatadir() works very well.

I reduced it to a one liner:

string username = userdatadir().split("\\")[3];

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