2 * Jalview - A Sequence Alignment Editor and Viewer (Version 2.8)
3 * Copyright (C) 2012 J Procter, AM Waterhouse, LM Lui, J Engelhardt, G Barton, M Clamp, S Searle
5 * This file is part of Jalview.
7 * Jalview is free software: you can redistribute it and/or
8 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
9 * as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
11 * Jalview is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
12 * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty
13 * of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
14 * PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
16 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Jalview. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
21 * System platform information used by Applet and Application
28 * sorry folks - Macs really are different
30 * @return true if we do things in a special way.
32 public boolean isAMac()
34 return java.lang.System.getProperty("os.name").indexOf("Mac") > -1;
38 public boolean isHeadless()
40 String hdls = java.lang.System.getProperty("java.awt.headless");
42 return hdls != null && hdls.equals("true");
47 * @return nominal maximum command line length for this platform
49 public static int getMaxCommandLineLength()
51 // TODO: determine nominal limits for most platforms.
52 return 2046; // this is the max length for a windows NT system.
56 * escape a string according to the local platform's escape character
59 * @return escaped file
61 public static String escapeString(String file)
63 StringBuffer f = new StringBuffer();
65 while ((p = file.indexOf('\\', lastp)) > -1)
67 f.append(file.subSequence(lastp, p));
71 f.append(file.substring(lastp));