Re: Why are 2 Terminal windows opening with NSAppleScript?
Re: Why are 2 Terminal windows opening with NSAppleScript?
- Subject: Re: Why are 2 Terminal windows opening with NSAppleScript?
- From: Ken Thomases <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:17:40 -0600
On Mar 7, 2012, at 9:32 PM, Prime Coderama wrote:
> If no Terminal app is open, the following code opens TWO Terminal windows. Why is it doing this? I only want one window to open.
>
> If only one Terminal window is open, then the following code opens only ONE additional window.
>
> NSAppleScript* terminal = [[NSAppleScript alloc] initWithSource:
> [NSString stringWithFormat:
> @"tell application \"Terminal\"\n"
> @" activate\n"
> @" do script \"echo %@\"\n"
> @" tell the front window\n"
> @" set title displays shell path to false\n"
> @" set title displays custom title to true\n"
> @" set custom title to \"My session! %@\"\n"
> @" end tell\n"
> @"end tell", name, name]];
>
> [terminal executeAndReturnError:nil];
Hint: what happens if you just launch Terminal?
Terminal opens a window (or, depending on settings, a window group) at launch. Then, as you note, your script opens an additional window.
Regards,
Ken
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