info.aduna.platform.desktop
Interface Desktop

All Known Implementing Classes:

DesktopBase, MacOSXDesktop, PosixDesktop, PosixGnomeDesktop, PosixKDEDesktop, WindowsDesktop

public interface Desktop

Method Summary

boolean	isExecutable(String resource) Determines whether the specified resource is an executable.
int	openResource(String resource) Opens the specified resource in the appropriate external application.
boolean	warnsWhenOpeningExecutable() Returns whether the native platform warns the user (usually through a dialog) when he or she is about to open an executable resource.

Method Detail

openResource

int openResource(String resource)
                 throws UnsupportedOperationException,
                        IOException

Opens the specified resource in the appropriate external application. The resource may have the form of a URL, but this is not required. This method blocks until the external process that actually opens the resource completes, and then returns its exit code.

Returns:

exit code of the external process

Throws:

UnsupportedOperationException - when the Platform does not know how to handle the specified resource.

IOException - when an I/O error occurs.

isExecutable

boolean isExecutable(String resource)
                     throws IOException

Determines whether the specified resource is an executable. It supports the same parameter format as the openResource method.

Throws:

IOException

warnsWhenOpeningExecutable

boolean warnsWhenOpeningExecutable()

Returns whether the native platform warns the user (usually through a dialog) when he or she is about to open an executable resource.

See Also:

openResource(java.lang.String)