Clearing the Post Window from a Gui: A Functioning Solution

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I have long wanted to be able to clear the post window in SCIde from the lang, but this has never been possible. I now have this working with osascript:

var clearPost = ("osascript -e 'tell application \"System Events\" to tell process \"SuperCollider\" to set frontmost to true' && osascript -e 'tell application \"System Events\" to tell process \"SuperCollider\" to keystroke \"p\" using {command down, shift down}' && osascript -e 'tell application \"SuperCollider\" to activate'");

clearPost.unixCmd;

This will return you to your gui window afterwards.

To stay in the ide:

var clearPost = ("osascript -e 'tell application \"System Events\" to tell process \"SuperCollider\" to set frontmost to true' && osascript -e 'tell application \"System Events\" to tell process \"SuperCollider\" to keystroke \"p\" using {command down, shift down}'  ");

clearPost.unixCmd;

You need to add SuperCollider to macOs
Settings->Privacy and Security → Accessibility, or it won’t work.

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You could make a PR adding this functionality to ScIDE through a primitive.

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I already looked at ScIDE, and yes, there would need to be an extra primitive. This is a working solution in the mean time.

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Ok, I created a pull request for ScIDE.clearPostWindow. Someone will have to review it. works nicely on my local build.

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For those of you using the apple script version, you need to add SuperCollider to macOs
Settings->Privacy and Security → Accessibility, or it won’t work.

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The new ScIDE.clearPostWindow now been merged into dev.

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Of course this will only work on Mac OS

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The ScIDE.clearPostWindow works on any platform that supports Qt. The applescript version is just a temporary workaround. If you build the dev version of SC, then you can have ScIDE.clearPostWindow now.

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Just a word of warning…

The dev version should always be considered unstable, until the release we might remove functionality or the build itself might not even work.

That being said, being a guinea pig and filing bugs reports on GitHub is a really useful way to contribute to the project!

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