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

[Philippe M. <pm...@ac...>]

Hello Jon,

You can inject F-Script into Terminal.app, or any Cocoa application,  
using F-Script Anywhere. You'll find it included in the F-Script  
binary distribution.
Upon injection, F-Script Anywhere adds an "FSA" menu item in the  
application's menu. From there, you can access the F-Script  
environment and explore the app from the inside.

Philippe

Le 6 juin 08 à 09:04, Jon Hancock a écrit :

> 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