Console view


This view shows the output of a process and allows you to provide keyboard input to a process.

Console View

The Console shows three different kinds of text:

You can choose the different colors for these kinds of text on the Opens the Console preference page Run/Debug > Console preference page.

The commands available in the console view are listed below.

Console View Commands

Command

Name

Description

Availability

Clear Console

Clear Console

Clears the currently active console, and is available as both a view command and a contextual menu item.

Context menu and view action
Copy Selected Console Material Copy Copies the selected material from the console onto the system clipboard. Context menu
Cut Selected Console Material Cut Copies the selected material to the system clipboard and removes it from the console. Context menu
Display Selected Console Display Selected Console Realizes a listing of current consoles and allows you to select which one you would like to see. View action
  Find/Replace Allows you to search for and replace s specified expression. Context menu
  Format Reformats the current stacktrace. This command in only available to stacktrace consoles. Context menu
Open Console Open Console Opens a new console of the selected type. View action
  Open Link Allows you to follow the hyperlink which was right-clicked on in the current stacktrace. Context menu
Paste Into Console Paste Pastes material saved on the system clipboard into the current console. Context menu
Pin Current Console Pin Pins the current console to remain on top of all other consoles. View action
  Preferences... Realizes the console preferences page, allowing you to customize you consoles. Context menu
Remove All Terminatede Launches Remove All Terminated Launches Removes all of the terminated launches from the current console. Context menu and view action
Remove Current Launch Remove Launch Removes the current launch from the console. View action
Scroll Lock Scroll Lock Changes if scroll lock should be enabled or not in the current console. Context menu and view action
  Select All Selects all of the contents of the current console. Context menu
Terminate Terminate Terminates the running launch in the current console. View action

Related concepts

Java views
Java perspectives

Related tasks

Changing the appearance of the console view
Stepping through the execution of a program
Run menu actions
Breakpoints view

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