swing-console

A Swing text console component, useful to provide functionality similar to a terminal in Java.

Provides a simple Java-based API for controlling the console.

Key features

• Support for blinking cursor
• Background and foreground with arbitrary colours
• Supports any monospaced font
• Can support multiple fonts in the same console
• Ability to capture System.out

Basic usage

JConsole jc=new JConsole(80,25);
jc.setCursorVisible(true);
jc.setCursorBlink(true);
jc.write("Hello World,\n");
jc.write("Colourful World\n",Color.BLACK,Color.MAGENTA);