Displaying Debug Messages

There are several ways to display debug, progress or even warning messages.

• The common way is to write to the console, which only works if debugging is performed in a development environment or so. Simply use:

  System.out.println("debugmessagehere")

• If you only want to display a progress report (e.g. counting the number of items processed) you may use a ThreadedPlugIn (interface, or ThreadedBasePlugIn) and the TaskMonitor of the run method, e.g.

  monitor.report("prepare computation");

• if you want to sent the user a warning message (or other message) you may use either

  context.getWorkbenchFrame().warnUser("blabla");

  or

  context.getWorkbenchFrame().setTimeMEssage("blabla");

• a not so direct method, but useful for sending long reports at the end of the processing is to generate a new html output window as shown in the "Hello World" example of the Developer's Guide.

context.getWorkbenchFrame().getOutputFrame().createNewDocument();
context.getWorkbenchFrame().getOutputFrame().addText(getString("Hallo"));
context.getWorkbenchFrame().getOutputFrame().surface();