Package org.eclipse.debug.ui.console

Interface IConsoleLineTracker

All Known Subinterfaces:

IConsoleLineTrackerExtension

public interface IConsoleLineTracker

Notified of lines appended to the console. A line tracker is defined in plugin.xml. A line tracker is associated with a type of process. Following is an example definition of a console line tracker extension.

 <extension point="org.eclipse.debug.ui.consoleLineTrackers">
   <consoleLineTracker
      id="com.example.ExampleConsoleLineTracker"
      class="com.example.ExampleConsoleLineTrackerClass"
      processType="ExampleProcessType">
   </consoleLineTracker>
 </extension>
 

The attributes are specified as follows:

• id specifies a unique identifier for this line tracker.
• class specifies a fully qualified name of a Java class that implements IConsoleLineTracker.
• processType specifies the identifier of the process type this line tracker is associated with (which corresponds to the ATTR_PROCESS_TYPE attribute on a process).

Clients may implement this interface.

Since:

2.1

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	dispose()	Disposes this console line tracker.
void	init(IConsole console)	Notification that a console document has been created for which this listener is registered.
void	lineAppended(IRegion line)	Notification that a line of text has been appended to the console.

Method Details

init

void init(IConsole console)

Notification that a console document has been created for which this listener is registered.

Parameters:

console - console that has been created

lineAppended

void lineAppended(IRegion line)

Notification that a line of text has been appended to the console. The given region describes the offset and length of the line appended to the console, excluding the line delimiter.

Parameters:

line - region describing the offset and length of line appended to the console, excluding the line delimiter

dispose

void dispose()

Disposes this console line tracker.