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Hi everybody. As a former user of NetBeans IDE 3.5.1, I was used to set 'Redirect Output to File' option to true and 'Redirection Directory' option to some directory located in my hard drive. But I'm not able to find those options in NetBeans IDE 5.0. Have they been eliminated because of the 'Too many options' issue? Is there any way of automatically redirecting output to file in this version? Thanks in advance
not a defect, sorry. The output window was reimplemeted for 4.0 I believe. And this feature was not included. You can however save the output window content explicitly via Save As.. popup menu action.
Probably WONTFIX?
probably yes. I don't see any added value from adding "redirect stream" next to the existing "save as" action. please reopen if you disagree.
I believe the value is that you can have your debugging info sent to a file. If this is a long running process then this is beneficial. I have been using println() statements for short debugging runs. Now I need to leave my program running for several hours maybe an entire day, it would be nice to know that it is being written to a file so that should something crash I will still have some data to look at. Writing this could to write to file instead of stdout would be a pain.