That's what the ShellMessages utility is for.

ShellMessages.error(shell, "my error message");

We could think about how best to unify this, but we are trying to keep Shell a bit cleaner.

~Lincoln

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Max Rydahl Andersen <max.andersen@redhat.com> wrote:
It's cool - but I was really hoping such things as direct/raw text control/buffer output would not be exposed or at least not be the norm that plugins uses/depends on it.

It still annoys me to see forge plugins that does shell.print(Color.RED, "blah blah") instead of shell.error("blah blah")

/max

On Nov 16, 2011, at 17:04, Mike Brock wrote:

> Internally, there is a new concept known as a BufferManager. Essentially the idea is that a plugin can create it's own sub-buffer to the main shell buffer.
>
> When WindowBlu loads, it registers its own buffer with the Shell, taking control of the display buffer so it can intercept and translate all the ANSI -- as well as pre-buffer repainting of the titlebar to minimize flickering, etc.
>
> Mike.
>
> On Nov 16, 2011, at 9:03 AM, Koen Aers wrote:
>
>> Yeah, the windowblu command shuts down Forge Tools. I'll take a closer look at what can be done to support it.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Koen
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 1:49 AM, Lincoln Baxter, III <lincolnbaxter@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I think you forgot the video :) this is awesome!
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQp_N-gGDzk
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 1:09 AM, Mike Brock <cbrock@redhat.com> wrote:
>> So, I've been back working on Forge Core -- scripting and internal API improvements. One thing that upset me was that Forge lacked a sub-buffering facility for console output, so you could intercept console output and do fun stuff like add a status bar. Well, Forge has this limitation no longer -- at least not in my branch (https://github.com/mikebrock/core)
>>
>> Haven't pushed the changes upstream, mainly because I don't know if they break JBoss Tools or not -- pretty sure they don't break anything else.
>>
>> Anyways, here's my first demo plugin that takes advantage of these new features in the shell API: https://github.com/mikebrock/core
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>> Mike.
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