How to find the computer's IP Address at runtime

 

Compatibilities: Required Xtras: Buddy API

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This handler will find the IP Address and other related information from the Windows registry. It should work on all versions of Windows from Win95 through XP. It requires the Buddy API xtra.

--This requires BudAPI --Script written by Mike Blaustein 2003 --Just make this a #movie script in your cast --If you call getIP(), you get a property list with 4 objects --It will look something like this: -- [#Address: "192.168.0.111", #DHCP: "Yes", #Subnet: "255.255.255.0", #Gateway: "192.168.0.100"] --If you call getIP().Address, you will get a string containing the IP --If you call getIP().DHCP, you will get an integer -> 1 for true, 0 for false --If you call getIP().Subnet,you will get a string containing the Subnet Mask --If you call getIP().Gateway,you will get a string containing the Default Gateway on getIP me      IPAddress=[#Address:"Error",#DHCP:"Error",#Subnet:"Error",#Gateway:"Error"]      if baVersion("nt")>0 then --this bit is for NT based OSes          bb=baRegKeyList( "SYSTEMControlSet001Services", "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" )          repeat with m=1 to bb.count --find the keys that start with {       if getat(bb,m) contains "{" then         secretCode= getat(bb,m)         --      put "sc="&secretcode                  --make sure we have the right one that starts with {         cc=baRegKeyList( "SYSTEMControlSet001Services"&secretCode&"Parameters", "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" )         if cc<>[] then --if it is not blank, then it must be the right one           realCode=secretCode           --        put "rc="&RealCode         end if                end if     end repeat          EnableDHCP = baReadRegNumber( "SYSTEMControlSet001Services"&realCode&"ParametersTcpip", "EnableDHCP", 0, "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" )          if EnableDHCP=1 then --DHCP       IP = baReadRegString( "SYSTEMControlSet001Services"&realCode&"ParametersTcpip", "DhcpIPAddress", "Error", "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" )       Subnet=baReadRegString( "SYSTEMControlSet001Services"&realCode&"ParametersTcpip", "DhcpSubnetMask", "Error", "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" )           Gateway=baReadRegString( "SYSTEMControlSet001Services"&realCode&"ParametersTcpip", "DhcpDefaultGateway", "Error", "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" )                else --static       IP = baReadRegString( "SYSTEMControlSet001Services"&realCode&"ParametersTcpip", "IPAddress", "Error", "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" )           Subnet=baReadRegString( "SYSTEMControlSet001Services"&realCode&"ParametersTcpip", "SubnetMask", "Error", "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" )           Gateway=baReadRegString( "SYSTEMControlSet001Services"&realCode&"ParametersTcpip", "DefaultGateway", "Error", "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" )                end if   else --this bit is for Win9x          --assume it is static     enableDHCP=0          AdapterList=baRegKeyList( "SystemCurrentControlSetServicesClassNetTrans", "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" )     repeat with x=1 to AdapterList.count --whichever adapter is PPP is 0.0.0.0 can be safely ignored       if baReadRegString( "SystemCurrentControlSetServicesClassNetTrans"&getAt(AdapterList,x), "IPAddress", "Error", "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" )="0.0.0.0" then             --do nothing       else         NetAdapter=getAt(AdapterList,x)             end if       end repeat     IP=baReadRegString( "SystemCurrentControlSetServicesClassNetTrans"&NetAdapter, "IPAddress", "Error", "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" )     Subnet=baReadRegString( "SystemCurrentControlSetServicesClassNetTrans"&NetAdapter, "IPMask", "Error", "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" )     Gateway=baReadRegString( "SystemCurrentControlSetServicesClassNetTrans"&NetAdapter, "DefaultGateway", "Error", "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" )          --if it isnt static, then we just wasted a bunch of time          if IP="Error" then -- it must be DHCP       --DHCP       enableDHCP=1              --Egads! It is in hex in the registry!       testIP = baReadRegBinary( "SystemCurrentControlSetServicesVxDDHCPDhcpInfo00", "DhcpIPAddress", "error", "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" )       IP=getAt(testIP,1)&"."&getAt(testIP,2)&"."&getAt(testIP,3)&"."&getAt(testIP,4)              testSubnet=baReadRegBinary( "SystemCurrentControlSetServicesVxDDHCPDhcpInfo00", "DhcpSubnetMask", "error", "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" )       Subnet=getAt(testSubnet,1)&"."&getAt(testSubnet,2)&"."&getAt(testSubnet,3)&"."&getAt(testSubnet,4)              testGateway=baReadRegBinary( "SystemCurrentControlSetServicesVxDDHCPDhcpInfo00", "DhcpServer", "error", "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" )       Gateway=getAt(testGateway,1)&"."&getAt(testGateway,2)&"."&getAt(testGateway,3)&"."&getAt(testGateway,4)     end if --/DHCP   end if --/OS      IPAddress.address=IP   IPAddress.subnet=Subnet   IPAddress.gateway=Gateway      if enableDHCP=1 then     IPAddress.DHCP="Yes"   else     IPAddress.DHCP="No"   end if      return IPAddress    end