Console to String, is it possible?

Newbie & Debugging Questions
#1

Is it possible to read the contents from a printstream??

I’m trying to capture the text from the console, in a midp game, to show a “console” in the phone with the contents of the system.err and system.out contents and i have ran out of ideas ::slight_smile:

#2

Can you use System.out = new MyPrintStream(); ?

Where your stream implementation is setup to dump the output into your console?

Kev

#3

System.out, err and in are final. You can change them with System.setOut() etc. if the security manager allows it.

I’ve attached a class (LoggerPrintStream) that I made for directing System.err to both console and file with nice timestamps. Here is the code for using it:


        try {
            String message = "\n\n----- " + APP_NAME + " " + APP_VERSION
                    + " started on " + new Date().toString() + " -----";
            PrintStream logger = new LoggerPrintStream(new FileOutputStream(DEBUG_LOG_FILE, true), System.err, message);
            System.setErr(logger);
        } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
            System.err.println("Unable to write to: " + DEBUG_LOG_FILE);
        }
#4

Thanks ;D I’ll try to implement my own printstream

Nice code Jackal ^^