jcgp.backend.resources

Interface Console

All Known Implementing Classes:

GUIConsole

public interface Console

Defines the basic model for a console.

This interface will typically be implemented by a GUI class and GUI packages such as JavaFX are usually single-threaded. If the CGP experiment is running on a side thread (which would be the case so as not to block the entire GUI), updating a GUI element such as the console from a different thread would lead to concurrency problems. For this reason, this console is intended to buffer printed messages and only output them to the actual GUI control when flush() is called (which is guaranteed to be done in a thread-safe way by the library).

Author:

Eduardo Pedroni

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	flush() Outputs all buffered messages to the console.
void	print(java.lang.String s) Prints a string without line break at the end (unless the string itself specifies one).
void	println(java.lang.String s) Prints a string and automatically adds a line break at the end.

Method Detail

println

void println(java.lang.String s)

Prints a string and automatically adds a line break at the end.

Parameters:

s - the string to print.

print

void print(java.lang.String s)

Prints a string without line break at the end (unless the string itself specifies one).

Parameters:

s - the string to print.

flush

void flush()

Outputs all buffered messages to the console. Only necessary if concurrent accesses must be avoided.