Console Plugin
Overview The chimera environment is based around an interactive ObjectScript interpreter. After chimera's scripting engine has loaded and evaluated bootstrap.os and user.os, it enters a read-eval-print loop. The console plugin provides access to this read-eval-print loop. The user can type in a script statement to evaluate. Multi-line statements can be input by ending each line with a backslash.

The console is particularly useful to the developer working on chimera plugins, or test scripts, because it provides a way to interactively test and debug. The pop-up menu that is displayed when clicking on the console's tab has a "Log" option, to allow you to select a file to log output to.
The console plugin is generally started from the bootstrap code, and so is not added to the "Plugins" pulldown menu.
Service API(s) console service API

Last modified: Tue Dec 11 10:04:07 PST 2001