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How to make System.out.println(...) in color in Eclipse? [message #269358]

Fri, 13 March 2009 17:16

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: www.nospam.net

Hi,

My program prints out a lot of messages to console. I hope that in some
conditions, the printing can be in red color so that I can be notified.

//regular printing messages

System.out.println("A lot of messages A");

if(specificCondition==true)
{
System.out.println("You need to be careful about this");
//System.err.println("You need to be careful about this");
}

System.out.println("A lot of messages B");

I know "System.err.println(...) shows up in red. However, the order of
its message is un-predictable. e.g. "You need to be careful about this"
may be shows up after "A lot of messages B" in console. And next run,
the order will be different again.

Thank you for your help.

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Re: How to make System.out.println(...) in color in Eclipse? [message #269382 is a reply to message #269358]

Mon, 16 March 2009 09:04

Ludwig Moser

Messages: 476
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

afaik you can't
but you can add pre's

eg:
public class ImportanceLogger {
public ImportanceLogger() {
}

public static void Log(int importance, String message) {
String pre = "";
if (importance > 0) {
for (int i = 0; i < importance; i++) {
pre += "-";
}
} else {
System.out.println(message);
return;
}
System.out.println(pre + ">\t" + message);
return;
}

public static void main(String[] args) {
for (int i = 0; i < 7; i++) {
Log(i, "importance = "+i);
}
}
}

which would output:
importance = 0
-> importance = 1
--> importance = 2
---> importance = 3
----> importance = 4
-----> importance = 5
------> importance = 6

greets

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