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| <p>Application programming interfaces for interaction |
| with the Eclipse console.</p> |
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| <h2>Package Specification</h2> |
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| <p>The Eclipse platform UI console plug-in provides a set of classes and interfaces to |
| facilitate the creation and display of consoles in the <b>ConsoleView</b>. This package |
| contains a generic abstract console (<b>AbstractConsole</b>) that provides some basic |
| functionality as well as two complete implementations of consoles that may be subclassed. |
| <p> The class <b>TextConsole</b> supports regular expression matching and hyperlinks. |
| Clients must provide their own document partitioner. |
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| <p><b>IOConsole</b> extends <b>TextConsole</b> and provides support for creating consoles based upon |
| input and output streams via the use of <b>IOConsoleOutputStream</b> and |
| <b>IOConsoleInputStream</b>. IOConsole is not an abstract class, it may be used as is or |
| subclassed. |
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| <p>A console manager (<b>IConsoleManager</b>) manages all active consoles, and |
| provides notification of consoles which are added and removed. Consoles are |
| displayed in a page book view. Each console implementation is reponsible for |
| creating its page (<b>IPageBookView</b>), which provides freedom of presentation |
| to the console implementation. A single console may be displayed simultaneously |
| in multiple console views, in different workbench windows. |
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