Re: Script to run a command in new Terminal window works un-reliably.

Wow...!!!

What do you know, it does work. Thanks a lot Andrew. 

Now, just one more thing left to figure out.  To simulate "-K" (Clear Scrollback) command, should I do "tell application "System Events" .... click menu item "Clear Scrollback" ..... end tell"  (the same way as "New Shell" get invoked in the original script ) or there is better way?

Thanks a lot again,

Andrei Tchijov 

On Jul 27, 2006, at 12:09 PM, Andrew Oliver wrote:

Hi,

  Could some one take a look at the script below and tell me what could be wrong with it?  The goal is to create new Terminal window and run a command in it.  The script works most of the time, but once in a while, it will fail to do "run command" bit.  

The first question is why you need to run this in terminal at all? Would 'do shell script' not suffice?

Secondly, assuming that using terminal.app is needed, your entire script can be compressed to:

 tell application "Terminal" to do script "command to run"

That's it. It will automatically launch terminal.app if it's not running, and will automatically start a new shell to run the command in. You have to go our of your way (e.g. use 'in window x') if you want a command to run in an existing window, so why make more work for yourself?

Andrew

:)

On Jul 27, 2006, at 8:58 AM, Andrei Tchijov wrote:

P.S. I am not sure if it make a difference, but I am running this script via the shell using osascript .

P.P.S. Though "activate" in the last "tell application ..." seems redundant, I think it did improve reliability of the script. 

===================================================================

tell application "System Events"

if not (exists process "Terminal") then

tell application "Terminal"

activate

end tell

else

tell application "Terminal"

activate

end tell

tell application "System Events"

tell process "Terminal"

tell menu bar 1

tell menu bar item "File"

tell menu "File"

click menu item "New Shell"

end tell

end tell

end tell

end tell

end tell

end if

tell application "Terminal"

activate

do script "<command to run>" in the front window

end tell

end tell

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