How to redirect all console output to a GUI textbox?

Question

I currently have a program that prints lines of text to the screen in various manners such as 'System.out.println()' statements and for loops the print all elements in an array to screen.

I am now adding a GUI to this program. My problem is that I want to print everything that prints to eclipse's console to a textbox in my GUI instead. Is this possible and if so how would I go about doing this.

Thanks in Advance.

Answer 1

An idea:

Create your own PrintStream that outputs everything to this textbox. Then set this new PrintStream to be the standard output stream like that:

System.setOut(myPrintStream());

Answer 2

Check this out http://unserializableone.blogspot.com/2009/01/redirecting-systemout-and-systemerr-to.html. The blog-article describes everything you need, its title is

Redirecting System.out and System.err to JTextPane or JTextArea