Provides coloring for a console document. When a process is added to a registered launch the debug plug-in creates a console document for the process. By default, a document is created which is connected to the standard input, output, and error streams associated with the process. A client may override the default coloring by specifying a custom content provider for a process type. A process type is defined via the process attribute IProcess. ATTR_PROCESS_TYPE.

A console color provider extension is defined in plugin.xml. Following is an example definition of a console color provider extension.

 <extension point="org.eclipse.debug.ui.consoleColorProviders">
   <consoleColorProvider 
      id="com.example.ExampleConsoleColorProvider"
      class="com.example.ExampleConsoleColorProviderClass"
      processType="ExampleProcessType">
   </consoleColorProvider>
 </extension>
 

The attributes are specified as follows:

• id specifies a unique identifier for this color provider.
• class specifies a fully qualified name of a Java class that implements IConsoleColorProvider.
• processType specifies the identifier of the process type this content provider is associated with (which corresponds to the ATTR_PROCESS_TYPE attribute on a process).

Clients may implement this interface.