From: Alexander Lohse <email@hidden>
> I was searching a lot through the net , but I could not find any hint
> how to be able to fire applevents or applescripts from a java
> application.
I have some JNIDirect, like JDirect used to be, that shows some of this. Mostly Carbon a little Cocoa.
> All I found was something like this:
Looks fine
> I tried to embedd this in my Crossplattform Application, so I wrote
> subs for the imports.
> But no result.
Assuming you meant 'stubs' this should work. The only catch I can think of is you would have to provide the stubs with dummy implementations of the constructors and methods used in the code.
> I can go very well with code like:
> if (System.getProperty("mrj.version") == null) { ... }
> or reflection-method-calls
mrj.version I thought is sort of deprecated otherwise this should work all right as well. This is what I usually do for platform specific code except using the os.name property.
I also have a class (GestaltReflection formerly part of GestaltClasses) that is supposed to make the reflection somewhat easier. A lot of overloaded 'newinstance' and 'invoke' methods not provided by core java. Still I had to change one or two instances of this to recently get my application working again on Windows. Just yesterday I had to figure out that a properties file wasn't loading because I was giving it hardcoded file separators. It's easy enough for small platform specific matters to render the application unusable elsewhere.
More a concern is that the code I was looking at yesterday made some version specific use of 'assert'. Old javac that my application still uses didn't seem to care for this so I switched to modern javac. Seems to be working ok for Windows but modern javac seemed to keep giving me numerous and difficult to back out problems when I tried it OS X so I kept sticking to the deprecated older version. Even if Windows doesn't have problems it's hard to say how things will look when I get back to the Mac.
I still have yet to find the SourceForge project that is bringing AppleScript to Windows. That would resolve that issue without your code needing to change.
Mike Hall mikehall at spacestar dot net
http://www.spacestar.net/users/mikehall
But I would not like to maintain platformspecific source code.
Regards,
Alex
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