Alexander Lohse <email@hidden> wrote:
>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.
If all you want to do is execute scripts, I suggest using the command
'osascript' and System.exec(String[]). See 'man osascript' in Terminal for
the command's details.
If your scripts have pathnames in Java form (e.g "/etc"), you will probably
need the 'POSIX file' class, which is documented in the scripting
dictionary of StandardAdditions.osax. It's listed under Miscellaneous
Commands on my machine. Simple examples:
osascript -e 'path to startup disk as string'
osascript -e '"/etc" as POSIX file'
osascript -e 'POSIX path of (path to startup disk)'
>Can anyone give me hint how to embedd Appescript in my crossplattform
>Java app?
>I can go very well with code like:
>if (System.getProperty("mrj.version") == null) { ... }
>or reflection-method-calls
>
>But I would not like to maintain platformspecific source code.
AppleScript itself is platform-specific to Mac OS. If you want to fire
AppleEvents or run AppleScripts, then that part of your program is
necessarily platform-specific.
Even if you use an external command like 'osascript', the scripting
commands themselves and the use of exec() will be platform-specific.
Exactly what are you trying to do by running scripts? Or are you just
trying to add a general scripting facility to your Java program?
-- GG
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