Color Terminal.app windows in Leopard

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
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#1

We have been running a shell script alias that uses ssh and colors the resulting Terminal windows based on the host name.

Color is set as, for example
color=‘{-1, -1, -6000}’ # pale beige
color=‘{-1, -11620, -21993}’ # a salmony orange

the script runs as follows


  tell application "Terminal"
   set the background color of the front window to $color
  end tell

Today we upgraded to Leopard and the “new” Terminal. Now I get an error:

Terminal got an error: Can’t make {-1, -1, -6000} into type color. (-1700)

Any ideas?

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Operating System: Mac OS X (10.5)

#2

Hi and welcome,

I guess, AppleScript doesn’t accept negative numbers for colors
Here’s a simple solution to calculate the positive equivalents

set thecolor to {-1, -11620, -21993}
repeat with i in thecolor
	if i < 0 then set contents of i to 65536 + i
end repeat
tell application "Terminal"
	set the background color of the front window to thecolor
end tell
#3

That seems to work.
Has anyone else had smething similar change with Leopard? Shall I file a bug report?
This script was wrking under several previous releases of Mac OS X.