org.jdesktop.swingx.util
Class OS

java.lang.Object
  org.jdesktop.swingx.util.OS

public class OS
extends Object

Provides methods related to the runtime environment.

Constructor Summary

OS()

Method Summary

static String	getWindowsVisualStyle() Returns the name of the current Windows visual style.
static boolean	isLinux()
static boolean	isMacOSX()
static boolean	isUsingWindowsVisualStyles()
static boolean	isWindows()
static boolean	isWindows2003()
static boolean	isWindowsVista()
static boolean	isWindowsXP()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

OS

public OS()

Method Detail

isMacOSX

public static boolean isMacOSX()

Returns:

true if this VM is running on Mac OS X

isWindows

public static boolean isWindows()

Returns:

true if this VM is running on Windows

isWindowsXP

public static boolean isWindowsXP()

Returns:

true if this VM is running on Windows XP

isWindows2003

public static boolean isWindows2003()

Returns:

true if this VM is running on Windows 2003

isWindowsVista

public static boolean isWindowsVista()

Returns:

true if this VM is running on Windows Vista

isLinux

public static boolean isLinux()

Returns:

true if this VM is running on a Linux distribution

isUsingWindowsVisualStyles

public static boolean isUsingWindowsVisualStyles()

Returns:

true if the VM is running Windows and the Java application is rendered using XP Visual Styles.

getWindowsVisualStyle

public static String getWindowsVisualStyle()

Returns the name of the current Windows visual style.

• it looks for a property name "win.xpstyle.name" in UIManager and if not found
• it queries the win.xpstyle.colorName desktop property (Toolkit.getDesktopProperty(java.lang.String))

Returns:

the name of the current Windows visual style if any.