About

GammaConsole is an embeddable Java Swing logging console that supports HTML formatting.

License

GammaConsole was created by UnexomWid. It is licensed under the MIT license.

Releases

Note: versions with the suffix R are considered stable releases, while those with the suffix D are considered unstable.

None.

Usage

GammaConsole console = new GammaConsole();
//Modify the console using the modifiers (see below);
//You can only do this after constructing the object, and before calling the run() method.
console.run();

console.printInfo("GammaConsole works!");
console.printVerbose("Some verbose.");
console.printDebug("Some debugging info.");
console.printWarning("A warning.");
console.printError("An error");

console.printInfo("This info is called by Class1", "Class1");
console.printWarning("This warning is called by Class2", "Class2");
console.printError("This error is called by Class3", "Class3");

You can use HTML code inside the string arguments. Example:

console.printError("<h1 style=\"color: red;\">This is bad</h1><br>Error details go below.");

You can change the title and icon of the console window like this:

console.setTitle("New Title!");
console.setIconImage(new ImageIcon(icon_bytes).getImage());

Modifiers

Method / Field	Description
setBackgroundColor(Color)	Sets the background color of the console
setTextColor(Color)	Sets the console text color
setBorderColor(Color)	Sets the color of the border between the lines
setDebugColor(Color)	Sets the color for Debug messages
setInfoColor(Color)	Sets the color for Info messages
setWarningColor(Color)	Sets the color for Warning messages
setErrorColor(Color)	Sets the color for Error messages
setTextSpacing(int)	Sets the amount of spaces to write between the timestamp and the message
fullTimestamp	Whether to print the full timestamp for each log, or just the hour, minute and second

Each set method has a get counterpart.

Example:

GammaConsole console = new GammaConsole();
console.setBackgroundColor(new Color(128, 128, 128));
console.run();

console.printInfo("The console has a gray background!");
console.printDebug("Red amount in background color: " + console.getBackgroundColor.getRed());

Other methods

Method	Description
getLogCount()	Gets the amount of printed logs
clear()	Clears the console
save()	Saves all the logs in a single HTML file (named after the current timestamp) in the working directory

The console has 2 built-in buttons for clear() and save().