[F-Script-talk] need to develop a plugin for Terminal.app

[Jon H. <ke...@re...>]

Hello list,
I am looking for a way to develop a "plugin" extension to Terminal.app  
on Leopard.

My first task is to analyze Terminal.app and see if it exposes the  
necessary objects for my desired plugin.
Then I want to see if I can prototype the plugin with F-Script.  If  
the behavior can be packaged right, I'm fine with using it for going  
beyond prototyping; we'll see.

I'm new to F-Script.  Fairly new to OS X dev.  But I am an old  
Smalltalk programmer so my questions will be mostly about how to  
integrate with an existing app, not F-Script language issues.

My first set of questions:

1 - Can F-Script be forced into an existing app such as Terminal.app?   
I see tutorial on how to embed F-Script into an app.  But can I force  
it to integrate into an app I don't "own".

2 - Does anyone have any experience with Terminal.app?  I see I can  
inspect the Terminal UI objects with the F-Script Object Browser via  
"Select View".  This exposes tons of UI stuff.  Any pointers on where  
to find interesting terminal/TTY objects?  My plugin is pretty low  
level and will depend on being able to monitor and maybe control or  
replace the TTY stream.

thanks, Jon