2 * Jalview - A Sequence Alignment Editor and Viewer (Version 2.8.0b1)
3 * Copyright (C) 2014 The Jalview Authors
5 * This file is part of Jalview.
7 * Jalview is free software: you can redistribute it and/or
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17 * The Jalview Authors are detailed in the 'AUTHORS' file.
22 * System platform information used by Applet and Application
29 * sorry folks - Macs really are different
31 * @return true if we do things in a special way.
33 public boolean isAMac()
35 return java.lang.System.getProperty("os.name").indexOf("Mac") > -1;
39 public boolean isHeadless()
41 String hdls = java.lang.System.getProperty("java.awt.headless");
43 return hdls != null && hdls.equals("true");
48 * @return nominal maximum command line length for this platform
50 public static int getMaxCommandLineLength()
52 // TODO: determine nominal limits for most platforms.
53 return 2046; // this is the max length for a windows NT system.
57 * escape a string according to the local platform's escape character
60 * @return escaped file
62 public static String escapeString(String file)
64 StringBuffer f = new StringBuffer();
66 while ((p = file.indexOf('\\', lastp)) > -1)
68 f.append(file.subSequence(lastp, p));
72 f.append(file.substring(lastp));