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Lyndon
Lyndon

Reputation: 613

How to run OSX Character Viewer from Java Swing app

I have seen a few OSX apps that have a Special Characters menu item in their Edit menu. For example Safari.

Clicking it brings up the so-called Character Viewer.

How can this be achieved by a Java Swing app?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 265

Answers (2)

trashgod
trashgod

Reputation: 205875

FontShower is an applet that displays a list of available fonts, including the installed logical fonts, and a selection of available glyphs, sizes and colors.

Upvotes: 1

Steve McLeod
Steve McLeod

Reputation: 52478

On Mac OS X 10.8 you'll find the Character Viewer app here:

/System/Library/Input Methods/CharacterPalette.app

I think the easiest way to run this from a Java app is by using executing the process:

new ProcessBuilder("/System/Library/Input Methods/CharacterPalette.app/Contents/MacOS/CharacterPalette").start();

Upvotes: 3

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