How to capture mouse click events from console in eclipse plugin - eclipse

Question

I'm developing an eclipse plugin. It writes some lines in a console. In order to select a line displayed in the console, I’m trying to capture mouse double click event from that console.
The console has been implemented by following this eclipse FAQ. MessageConsole or IconsoleView classes doesn‘t seem to provide a methode to add a listener with an SWT.MouseDoubleClick event.
Is there any way to capture a mouse event from a console and then read the selected line ?

Answer 1

The MessageConsole doesn't know anything about how the data is displayed, it is the TextConsoleViewer that deals with that.
To access the console viewer you need to use a custom message console - extending MessageConsole or TextConsole and overriding createPage to create your own console page extending TextConsolePage.
The console page needs to override the createViewer method to create your own text console viewer extending TextConsoleViewer.
In the viewer you can override the mouseDoubleClick method to receive the double clicks.
For an example see the Eclipse JDT JavaStackTraceConsole, JavaStackTraceConsolePage, and JavaStackTraceConsoleViewer classes.
public class JavaStackTraceConsole extends TextConsole {
...
#Override
public IPageBookViewPage createPage(IConsoleView view) {
return new JavaStackTraceConsolePage(this, view);
}
}
public class JavaStackTraceConsolePage extends TextConsolePage {
...
#Override
protected TextConsoleViewer createViewer(Composite parent) {
return new JavaStackTraceConsoleViewer(parent, (JavaStackTraceConsole) getConsole());
}
}
public class JavaStackTraceConsoleViewer extends TextConsoleViewer {
...
}

Answer 2

Thank you, it works fine. I just had to managed the mouse event in another way because overriding the mouseDoubleClick method didn’t work. Here is my code :
public class MyTextConsoleViewer extends TextConsoleViewer {
public MyTextConsoleViewer(Composite parent, MyMessageConsole console) {
super(parent, console);
StyledText styledText = getTextWidget();
MouseListener listener = new MouseListener() {
#Override
public void mouseUp(MouseEvent arg0) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
}
#Override
public void mouseDown(MouseEvent arg0) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
}
#Override
public void mouseDoubleClick(MouseEvent event) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
IDocument document = console.getDocument();
try {
int currentLine = document.getLineOfOffset(styledText.getOffsetAtLocation(new Point (event.x, event.y)));
IRegion lineInfo = document.getLineInformation(currentLine);
System.out.println(document.get(lineInfo.getOffset(), lineInfo.getLength()));
} catch (BadLocationException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
};
styledText.addMouseListener(listener );
// TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
}
public MyTextConsoleViewer(Composite parent, TextConsole console,
IScrollLockStateProvider scrollLockStateProvider) {
super(parent, console, scrollLockStateProvider);
// TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
}
#Override
public void mouseDoubleClick(MouseEvent e) {
System.out.println("This even doesn't work!");
}
}