Package org.openide.windows

Interfaces for working with input/output tabs.

See: Description

Interface Summary

Interface	Description
InputOutput	An I/O connection to one tab on the Output Window.
IOContainer.CallBacks	Callbacks from IOContainer to child component corresponding to IO
IOContainer.Provider	SPI for providers of parent container for IO components (tabs)
IOPosition.Position
OutputListener	Listener to actions taken on a line in the Output Window.

Class Summary

Class	Description
FoldHandle	An object that refers to a fold in output window.
IOColorLines	Line printing with custom color.
IOColorPrint	Text printing with custom color.
IOColors	Settings of colors for normal, error, hyperlink, important hyperlink lines.
IOContainer	IOContainer is accessor class to parent container of IO tabs for IOProvider implementations.
IOFolding	Folding of group of lines in Output Window.
IOFolding.FoldHandleDefinition	An SPI for creating custom FoldHandle implementations.
IOPosition	Navigation (scrolling) in IO component.
IOProvider	A factory for IO tabs shown in the output window.
IOSelect	Capability of an InputOutput of finer grained selection of a component.
IOTab	Settings of tool tip/icon for IO component (tab).
OutputEvent	Event fired when something happens to a line in the Output Window.
OutputWriter	A PrintWriter subclass for writing to a tab in the output window.

Enum Summary

Enum	Description
IOColors.OutputType	output types
IOSelect.AdditionalOperation	Additional operations to perform when issuing IOSelect.select(org.openide.windows.InputOutput, java.util.Set<org.openide.windows.IOSelect.AdditionalOperation>).

Package org.openide.windows Description

Interfaces for working with input/output tabs.

A few other parts of NetBeans use the Output Window to display messages from a running process or operation of some sort - for example, the progress of compilation, or status messages from the Java parser.

The Output Window is organized into tabs, each of which is capable of handling both input and output. IOProvider.getIO(String, boolean) will get the InputOutput handle for one tab of the output window. Frequently, though, such a tab will be created by NetBeans implementation code and passed to your code automatically.