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Putting a 'terminal' in my application?

Are there any frameworks for say, putting a display like in Terminal.app in MY app, and then displaying text on it like usual output to STDOUT? Complete with scrollback and etc.?

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Timothy McDowell Avatar asked Feb 03 '10 19:02

Timothy McDowell


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You may want to look at iTerm, an open-source terminal emulator written in Cocoa. If you really want terminal emulation, you might be able to lift from that framework.

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Barry Wark Avatar answered Oct 15 '22 12:10

Barry Wark