On 4/21/08 8:36 AM, in article 0F70886B-FCF9-4318-A398-9D5CBA91F0B0@macromates.com, "Allan Odgaard" throw-away-2@macromates.com wrote:

On 17 Apr 2008, at 02:52, Mark Eli Kalderon wrote:

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Is there a way to modify the Open Terminal command so that it uses tabs with Terminal.app? I have been trying to do this but my applescript-fu is weak. :/

I see there is plenty of support for this in the scripting dictionary, but I also don¹t get AppleScript.

I tried first:

 tell app "Terminal" to return tabs of first window

This worked fine, so then I tried:

 tell app "Terminal" to make new tab in first window

That gave me:

 Terminal got an error: Can¹t make or move that element into that

container. (-10024)

And then I gave up :)

Giving up is correct behavior! :))) The whole frustration with AppleScript is that you have no way of knowing whether a feature is implemented ("Is it possible to script the Terminal to make tabs in a window?") and, if so, what the syntax is for making it happen.

I believe the matter at hand (unless I've misunderstood - I haven't really been following along) has been pretty well discussed here:

http://onrails.org/articles/2007/11/28/scripting-the-leopard-terminal

m.

Haha. The author ends up recommending a variant of the same hack I settled for:

Tell application "System Events" to tell process "Terminal" to keystroke

"t" using command down

What a disappointment! And why does "make" fail here? Ah well...

I finally settled on a slightly different hack that I like better. Jacob Rus posted a couple of utility functions here: http://pastie.caboo.se/14358

Using those, my make_tab function looks like this: on make_tab(style) my menu_click({"Terminal", "Shell", "New Tab", style}) end make_tab

So the final script looks something like property tabStyle : "Pro" tell application "Terminal" activate make_tab(tabStyle) end tell

I archived the utility functions here in case the pastie goes away: http://geoff.mollyandgeoff.com/blog/2008/02/09/programmatically-create-new-t...

HTH,

Geoff

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Allan Odgaard throw-away-2@macromates.com wrote:

On 17 Apr 2008, at 02:52, Mark Eli Kalderon wrote:

Is there a way to modify the Open Terminal command so that it uses tabs

...

with Terminal.app? I have been trying to do this but my applescript-fu is weak. :/

I see there is plenty of support for this in the scripting dictionary, but I also don't get AppleScript.

I tried first:

tell app "Terminal" to return tabs of first window

This worked fine, so then I tried:

tell app "Terminal" to make new tab in first window

That gave me:

Terminal got an error: Can't make or move that element into that container. (-10024)

And then I gave up :)

I have honestly always been very surprised by the inconsistent scripting support among Apple apps.

That said, this works beautifully in iTerm: --- tell application "iTerm" activate tell the first terminal launch session "Default Session" end tell end tell

-Chris