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Using org.eclipse.ui.console for my RCP -- problem: cant listen to return keys or alike [message #647450]

Thu, 06 January 2011 08:16

Eclipse User

Hello,
I am trying to use a console view in my RCp application. Since eclipse has this org.eclipse.ui.console implementations, I added a IOConsole to my workbench. It provides one InputStream to read from it, but I don't know how to be informed when actually there is a need to read from the console, specifically: when the return key was pressed. The only possibility seems to me to permanently read the input stream in a background thread, which seems not elegant to me, and unperformant.

Since there are zero tutorials or documentation further than the javadoc available, I am really stuck here. Can you help me, please?

Thanks!

Re: Using org.eclipse.ui.console for my RCP -- problem: cant listen to return keys or alike [message #647770 is a reply to message #647450]

Sat, 08 January 2011 14:52

Eclipse User

Me again..
Solved it:
IOConsole.getDocument().addDocumentListener(...), combined with ioConsole.getInputStream.available();

Just watch out, it seems like there is a bug in the IOConsoleOutputStream implementation of available - it throws a IOException sometimes when calling available(), stating that the Stream is closed, even if that's not true. just catch and ignore until fix.

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