Java Script executeAppleScript(String script)

Description

execute Apple Script

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static void executeAppleScript(String script) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
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import java.io.IOException;
import javax.script.ScriptEngine;
import javax.script.ScriptEngineManager;

public class Main {
    public static void executeAppleScript(String script) {
        try {
            ScriptEngineManager mgr = new ScriptEngineManager();
            ScriptEngine engine = mgr.getEngineByName("AppleScript");
            engine.eval(script);
        } catch (Throwable e) {
            _executeAppleScript(script);
        }
    }

    private static void _executeAppleScript(String script) {
        Runtime runtime = Runtime.getRuntime();
        String[] args = { "/usr/bin/osascript", "-e", script };
        try {
            runtime.exec(args);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

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