Resize a window with Applescript in iTerm2

[Ralf Weber]

Moin!

I want to resize a window I create with apple script and have the
following code, which syntactically looks right from the Apple Script
editor:

tell application "iTerm"
activate
set myterm to (create window with default profile)
tell myterm
set number of columns to 105
set number of rows to 35
tell current session of myterm
write text "ssh myhost"
write text "tmux attach -t overview || tmux new-session -s overview"
end tell
end tell
end tell


however I do get the following when executing:

error "iTerm got an error: Can’t set columns of window id 1596 to
105." number -10006 from columns of window id 1596

is this a bug or am I'm doing something wrong.

TIA and so long
-Ralf

[George Nachman]

I'm pretty sure Applescript was created as a joke by people who don't like us.

sessions are not a property of windows, but of tabs. Also, "number of" is some magic to do with arrays, not scalars (I think). Here's a working script:

tell application "iTerm2"

activate

set myterm to (create window with default profile)

tell first session of first tab of myterm

set columns to 105

set rows to 35

tell current session of myterm

write text "ssh myhost"

write text "tmux attach -t overview || tmux new-session -s overview"

end tell

end tell

end tell

-Ralf

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[Ralf Weber]

Moin!

On 9 Apr 2017, at 18:21, George Nachman wrote:

> I'm pretty sure Applescript was created as a joke by people who don't like
> us.

I'm not disagreeing on that.

> sessions are not a property of windows, but of tabs. Also, "number of" is
> some magic to do with arrays, not scalars (I think). Here's a working
> script:
>
> tell application "iTerm2"
> activate
> set myterm to (create window with default profile)
> tell first session of first tab of myterm
> set columns to 105
> set rows to 35
> tell current session of myterm
> write text "ssh myhost"
> write text "tmux attach -t overview || tmux new-session -s overview"
> end tell
> end tell
> end tell

That does the job. Thanks a lot as always for your superb support.

So long
-Ralf