Re: Character Palette

I checked the processes running after opening up the Character Palette from within the Finder. The application that runs can be found here:

/System/Library/Components/CharacterPalette.component/Contents/SharedSupport/CharPaletteServer.app/Contents/MacOS/CharPaletteServer

Typing that in at the terminal opens the Character Palette and I've tried the following and it works from Java:

public class CharacterPalette {

public static void main(String[] args) {

try {

Runtime.getRuntime().exec("/System/Library/Components/CharacterPalette.component/Contents/SharedSupport/CharPaletteServer.app/Contents/MacOS/CharPaletteServer");

} catch (IOException e) {

// TODO Auto-generated catch block

e.printStackTrace();

}

Is this what you want?

Please note that I am using Mac OS X 10.4, Tiger. I don't know if this is compatible with other versions of OS X and of course there is no guarantee that the application may not move to somewhere else in the future. Also I don't know if this a valid thing to do or not (maybe someone else does) but maybe this suffices for your needs.

Best Regards,

Ian Cheyne

On 11 Oct 2005, at 21:40, Elliotte Harold wrote:

Anyone happen to know a simple way to pop up the character palette from a Java Swing application? e.g. I'm looking for the palette found in many applications including TextEdit and QuickTime Player as Edit/Special Characters. Doesn't need to be cross-platform. Is there a standard method for this?

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