Re: Move and resize the window
Re: Move and resize the window
- Subject: Re: Move and resize the window
- From: Graff <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 02:03:29 -0500
To find the dictionary for any program just run Script Editor and go to
File->Open Dictionary. If it is not listed there then go to the button
at the bottom of that window that says Browse and click on it. Then
navigate to the program and if it is not dimmed select it and hit the
Choose button. Later versions of Script Editor also have a Library
window that you can put applications in for easy access. You hit
shift-apple-L to toggle the window open or closed.
To open a new Terminal window all you have to do is run a command. You
do it like this:
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tell application "Terminal"
do script ""
end tell
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The blank command will just cause a window to open. To run a command
instead of just doing nothing you would do something like this:
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tell application "Terminal"
do script "cd ~/Documents/"
end tell
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This will execute the command "cd ~/Documents/" in a new Terminal
window.
To do more shell commands in the same window without combining them
into one "do script" command you could combine them with a semicolon
like this:
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tell application "Terminal"
do script "cd ~/Documents/; ls -l"
end tell
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This is exactly how you would combine commands if you wanted to do this
in the shell.
If you can't combine them then you will have to save what window you
are working in so that you can do each command in that window. Since
the last window opened is the front one this is easy:
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tell application "Terminal"
do script "cd ~/Documents/"
set theWindow to front window
delay 1
do script "ls -l" in theWindow
end tell
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You need to have a little delay in there because for some reason if the
commands are entered too quickly they don't get executed properly. I
did a delay of 1 second to prevent this
-Ken
On Mar 4, 2004, at 10:35 PM, Juguang Xiao wrote:
I am very new to AppleScript, so my this question may be quite naive.
I cannot find a right reference to answer it.
How to open a new Terminal, rather than activate it? And how to move
and resize the window of it?
One general question is how to find the method set of one specific
Application? Such as what are methods available for/in/from Terminal.
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