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: Matt Neuburg <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 19:34:58 -0800
On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:32:07 +1100, Prime Coderama <email@hidden> said:
>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];
It actually might help you to read my AppleScript book! See p. 278 on the meaning of launch and on what applications do when they are launched implicitly by a tell block.
m.
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