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Console

Overview

The Console class provides a mechanism to control what is displayed in the application's output console. Text can be appended, the console can be shown or hidden, and the text inside the console can be cleared.

Methods

Console.clear: Clears the console output
Console.show: Shows or hides the form control.
Console.write: Outputs text to the console
Console.writeLine: Outputs text to the console

Console.clear

function Console.clear()

Description

Clears all text in the output console

Console.show

function Console.show(flag : Boolean)

Arguments

flag: A flag which indicates whether to show or hide the console.

Description

Shows the console if the flag is true. Hides the console if the flag is false. If flag isn't specified, the console is shown.

Console.write

function Console.write(text : String)

Arguments

text: The string to append to the console output

Description

Outputs the string passed to the text parameter to the console. A new-line is not automatically added.

Console.writeLine

function Console.writeLine(text : String)

Arguments

text: The string to append to the console output

Description

Outputs the string passed to the text parameter to the console. A new-line is automatically added to the string.