Re: Scripting Leopard terminal
Re: Scripting Leopard terminal
- Subject: Re: Scripting Leopard terminal
- From: broz <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:38:00 -0500
- Thread-topic: Scripting Leopard terminal
Thanks!!
I had done quite a bit of searching for a solution and had not seen what you
suggested. Looks like Matthew Lambie is using System Events to go thru the
UI of Terminal. The Terminal dictionary indicates I should be able to create
the tabs directly.
AppleScript can be challenging...
Thanks again!
some time around 11.29.2007 10:37 PM, someone named Philip Aker at
email@hidden carefully typed these words:
> On 2007-11-29, at 19:22, broz wrote:
>
>> At risk of sounding like an idiot...
>>
>> How can I tell terminal app to open a new tab in the frontmost window?
>
> Look for a post by Matthew Lambie near the beginning of this month
> (Nov 2 ?) in the archives.
>
>>
>> This does not work. I get an error back from the terminal "AppleEvent
>> handler failed"
>>
>>
>> tell application "Terminal"
>> set frontWindow to window 1
>> tell frontWindow
>> set newTab to make new tab with properties {number of rows:50,
>> number of columns:80}
>> -- do more stuff here, once I fix the above item...
>> end tell
>> end tell
>
>
> Philip Aker
> echo email@hidden@nl | tr a-z@. p-za-o.@
>
>
>
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