Question:
I am receiving this error when trying to execute applescript from my java application. The code is as follows:
String script = "tell application \"Terminal\" to do shell script \"/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\\ Extras/user.menu/Contents/Resources/CGSession -suspend\" "; ScriptEngineManager mgr = new ScriptEngineManager(); ScriptEngine engine = mgr.getEngineByName("AppleScript"); engine.eval(script); I get the following error:
Exception in thread "main" javax.script.ScriptException: Expected “"†but found unknown token. at apple.applescript.AppleScriptEngine.evalScript(Native Method) at apple.applescript.AppleScriptEngine.eval(AppleScriptEngine.java:342) at apple.applescript.AppleScriptEngine.eval(AppleScriptEngine.java:313) at myTestApp.Main.main(Main.java:25) Thanks for your consideration.
Solution:1
A guess based on experience... Maybe the escaped space in the pathname is your show stopper.
Try to call a script from a location where the path has no spaces or try to 'double-escape' the escaped space, like so:
"tell application \"Terminal\" to do shell script \"/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\\\\ Extras/user.menu/Contents/Resources/CGSession -suspend\" " A common reason for strange errors are those whitespaces in pathnames. So it was my first guess, that this causes trouble in your script. Then I remembered that sometimes we have to 'escape escaped backslashes'. This article doesn't explain, why it solved exactly your problem, but it shows how many backslashes may be needed...
Solution:2
You need to 'double-escape' the space in the path:
vvvv ...\Menu\\\\ Extras\... Note:If u also have question or solution just comment us below or mail us on toontricks1994@gmail.com
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