Console View

The Console view displays output from both the IDL command line and compiled IDL programs. This output includes:

Commands entered in the IDL command line

IDL command output and errors

IDL program output

Compilation information and errors

In the following example, the Console displays commands entered in the Command Line view, and the subsequent output:

The text in the Console view is color coded. For example, in the previous example, IDL commands are displayed in green, with the standard output displayed in black. When compiling an IDL program, compilation errors are color coded, and the view provides hypertext links to errors in the source file.

To see or change the current Console syntax colors, from the Preferences dialog, select the Run/Debug → Console page.

To add the Console view to the current perspective, click Window → Show View → Console.

Toolbar

The toolbar of the Console view contains the following buttons:


Toolbar Button	Description
Clear Console	Clears all text from the view.
Scroll Lock	Freezes the window slider so that the current text is always displayed. New text can be added, but the focus remains on the current text. Note - You can manually move the window slider.
Save log to file	Saves the contents of the Console view to a file.
Print log	Prints the contents of the Console view.
Minimize	Minimizes the view in the perspective.
Maximize	Maximizes the view in the perspective.