IConsoleColorProvider (Eclipse Platform API Specification)

All Known Implementing Classes:

ConsoleColorProvider
```
public interface IConsoleColorProvider
```
Provides coloring for a console document. When a process is added to a registered launch the debug plug-in creates a console document for the process. By default, a document is created which is connected to the standard input, output, and error streams associated with the process. A client may override the default coloring by specifying a custom content provider for a process type. A process type is defined via the process attribute IProcess. ATTR_PROCESS_TYPE.
A console color provider extension is defined in plugin.xml. Following is an example definition of a console color provider extension.
```
 <extension point="org.eclipse.debug.ui.consoleColorProviders">
   <consoleColorProvider
      id="com.example.ExampleConsoleColorProvider"
      class="com.example.ExampleConsoleColorProviderClass"
      processType="ExampleProcessType">
   </consoleColorProvider>
 </extension>
 
```
The attributes are specified as follows:
- id specifies a unique identifier for this color provider.
- class specifies a fully qualified name of a Java class that implements IConsoleColorProvider.
- processType specifies the identifier of the process type this content provider is associated with (which corresponds to the ATTR_PROCESS_TYPE attribute on a process).
Clients may implement this interface.
Since:

2.1

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`void`	`connect(IProcess process, IConsole console)`	Connects this color provider to the given process and console.
`void`	`disconnect()`	Disconnects this color provider.
`Color`	`getColor(String streamIdentifer)`	Returns the color to draw output associated with the given stream.
`boolean`	`isReadOnly()`	Returns whether the console associated with this color provider's process can currently accept keyboard input.

- Method Detail
  - isReadOnly
```
boolean isReadOnly()
```
    Returns whether the console associated with this color provider's process can currently accept keyboard input. This attribute is dynamic and may change over the lifetime of a process/document.
    
    Returns:
    
    whether the console associated with this color provider's process can currently accept keyboard input
  - getColor
```
Color getColor(String streamIdentifer)
```
    Returns the color to draw output associated with the given stream.
    
    Parameters:
    
    streamIdentifer - the identifier of the stream
    
    Returns:
    
    Color
  - connect
```
void connect(IProcess process,
             IConsole console)
```
    Connects this color provider to the given process and console. This color provider should connect its streams to the given console document.
    
    Parameters:
    
    process - the process to connect this color provider to
    
    console - the console to connect this color provider to
  - disconnect
```
void disconnect()
```
    Disconnects this color provider.