Writing messages to the eclipse console

Try something like the NTail Eclipse plugin and use your own logfile.

I'll have a look. But I was hoping I could write to the standard console...

Regards / Med Venlig Hilsen 

Thomas Hansen

Director

I'll have a look. But I was hoping I could write to the standard console...

Me too! Please share a solution, when you get one.

mikefe wrote:
I'll have a look. But I was hoping I could write to the standard console...
Me too! Please share a solution, when you get one. 

I suspect this has more to do with the AVM's inability to write to the console than Eclipse. I don't know whether it's possible to write to the console explicitly in ABL (ie nothing like C#'s System.Console:WriteLine() or Java's System.out.println() ).

An OUTPUT TO CONSOLE statement in ABL would probably need an enhancement request.

-- peter

>I don't know whether it's possible to write to the console explicitly in ABL (ie nothing like C#'s System.Console:WriteLine() or Java's System.out.println() ).

What's wrong with using System.Console:WriteLine() in the ABL? 10.2B +

Hi Peter,

I was afraid you might say something like that...

I was hoping that you would simply point to one of the files in the project.runtime directory But I have been able to find anything there.

Regards / Med Venlig Hilsen 

Thomas Hansen

Director

Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but I see nothing, either from Eclipse or proenv/prowin32.


def var i as int.
do i = 1 to 5:
System.Console:WriteLine(fill('~t', i) + ' ' + string(i) ).
end.


-- peter

Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but I see nothing, either from Eclipse or proenv/prowin32.

Well, that would be the (currently) available alternative to OUTPUT TO CONSOLE.

But I assume that OEA is not expecting that from the Progress client. I assume, that the Progress client needs to send log-messages to the Eclipse plugin using network messages.

You should try to convince your colleagues to make those API's public!!!

I second that!

Regards / Med Venlig Hilsen 

Thomas Hansen

Director

But I assume that OEA is not expecting that from the Progress client.

I assume, that the Progress client needs to send log-messages to the

Eclipse plugin using network messages.

Eclipse launch configs do have the option to redirect stdout (and stdin) and put it into a console view (there's an option on the Common tab for 'allocate console' which enables this behaviour, I believe).

The best current alternative is probably your (Mike) option of output-to-file-and-monitor.

-- peter

I actually wanted to use it to give the user some info on what extensions are doing as we work - without the need for plugins.

I guess an alternative would be like Mike has done in the SmartComponentLibrary with a taskbar info message (not sure what the correct name is).

Regards / Med Venlig Hilsen 

Thomas Hansen

Director

I guess an alternative would be like Mike has done in the SmartComponentLibrary with a taskbar info message (not sure what the correct name is).

I'm using Infragistics UltraDesktopAlert Component or a Microsoft NotifyIcon with a Ballon Tooltip. Not sure which one you are pointing to

The one that is showing info when choosing Business Entities and other objects.

Regards / Med Venlig Hilsen 

Thomas Hansen

Director

You've got the source code

I'll have to look myself...