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Selected text from Terminal?

Hey again guru's!

Maybe it's just that I'm still recovering from Turkey Overdose (and a
mild hangover:), but for some reason it seems like this should work but
I can't get it to behave. Even threatening it with extreme violence
hasn't helped. ;-)

I'm trying to grab some text from a Terminal window. The dictionary for
Terminal claims that I can use the window "contents", so that inspired
me to try things like this:

get contents of text 1 of window 1

But every attempt at that gives this result:

System Events got an error:
NSCannotCreateScriptCommandError

OK, maybe GUI scripting is my answer! Bill's PreFab UI Browser tells me
to try this:

get value of static text 1 of window 1

But every attempt at that produces this:

System Events got an error:
NSReceiverEvaluationScriptError: 4

Hmmm, that doesn't help much. I just want to have my script check the
text on the Terminal screen to make it more robust (a "did what I just
try result in what I expected?" kind of thing), so this isn't CRITICAL
but it looks like it should work.

Is it possible or "not implemented yet"? Anyone have a script that
yanks text from a Terminal window successfully?

Particulars:
450MHz G3 "Blue & White", 256MB RAM, 60GB drive
OSX 10.3.1 "Panther"
PreFab UI Browser 1.2 (v44)
Smile 2.5.2 / ASS 1.9.2 (? came w/ Panther) & Xcode 1.0.1
(Using Smile to test sections of code, Xcode to integrate parts and
test package)



Dave Stewart
Aqua-flo Supply (Goleta)
dstewart at aquaflo dot com

Be nice to other people; they outnumber you 5.6 billion to 1
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