How do I route the output from an external process to the output window?
Writing to the output window is tricky – typically you need to launch an external process via Runtime.exec(). The code that does this should not be running on the event thread. Then you need a couple of threads to monitor the standard out and error out of the process, and pipe any output to the output window. The following code is a rough example: public void launchProcess (String commandline) { if (EventQueue.isDispatchThread()) { throw new IllegalStateException (“Cannot be called from EDT”); } final Process process = Runtime.getRuntime().exec (cmdline); //Get the standard out InputStream out = new BufferedInputStream (process.getInputStream(), 8192); //Get the standard in InputStream err = new BufferedInputStream (process.getErrorStream(), 8192); //Create readers for each final Reader outReader = new BufferedReader (new InputStreamReader (out)); final Reader errReader = new BufferedReader (new InputStreamReader (err)); InputOutput io = IOProvider.getDefault().getIO(scene.getName(), f
