/*******************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2008 IBM Corporation.
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*
* Contributors:
* Robert Fuhrer (rfuhrer@watson.ibm.com) - initial API and implementation
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.imp.utils;
import java.io.PrintStream;
import org.eclipse.ui.console.ConsolePlugin;
import org.eclipse.ui.console.IConsole;
import org.eclipse.ui.console.IConsoleManager;
import org.eclipse.ui.console.MessageConsole;
import org.eclipse.ui.console.MessageConsoleStream;
public class ConsoleUtil {
public static MessageConsole findConsole(String name) {
MessageConsole myConsole= null;
final IConsoleManager consoleManager= ConsolePlugin.getDefault().getConsoleManager();
IConsole[] consoles= consoleManager.getConsoles();
for(int i= 0; i < consoles.length; i++) {
IConsole console= consoles[i];
if (console.getName().equals(name))
myConsole= (MessageConsole) console;
}
if (myConsole == null) {
myConsole= new MessageConsole(name, null);
consoleManager.addConsoles(new IConsole[] { myConsole });
}
consoleManager.showConsoleView(myConsole);
return myConsole;
}
public static PrintStream findConsoleStream(String name) {
MessageConsole myConsole= findConsole(name);
MessageConsoleStream consStream= myConsole.newMessageStream();
PrintStream ps= new PrintStream(consStream);
return ps;
}
}