The Console utilities primary purpose is to display the Inter-Process Communication output from the Simulator program and its utilities. The program reads the command structures in the ConsoleFrame::readNextFromClient(consoleframe.cpp) routine of the Console Utility. The following commands are implemented or planned:

• ASSERT – implemented – example (src\simulator\main.cpp) Assert prints source file, line number and message. Assert will stop on the initial discovery, but can be overridden from the Console.
• MESSAGE - implemented – example (src\simulator\main.cpp) Message prints the source file, line number and a message.
• MEMORY – not implemented – Create memory statistics.

  PROFILE/PROFILE_START/PROFILE_STOP – implemented – example (src\simulator\main.cpp) Produces a min, max and average instruction counter(rdtsc) output (hex).

• EXCEPTION – implemented – example (src\simulator\main.cpp) Exception prints source file, line number and a message. Exception reference the line number of the exception in the “catch” statement.

• PLOT – not implemented – Will produce 2D or 3D graphics of a variable (time) or an array of variables.

• DUMP – implemented – example (src\utilities\msts2blender\mstsace.cpp) Dump will print a variable ("sprintf" format) to the Console utility.

• TWEAKER – implemented – example ( src/simulator/graphics.cpp )Allows simulator variables to be displayed and changed in real time. )

• UNITTEST – implemented – UNITTEST is not a macro, but is implemented in vendor/cxxtest/cxxtest/TGConsoleGui.h. The source TGConsoleGui.h is used to tie cxxtest unit tests to the Console IPC. The TGConsoleGui GUI displays detail test results in a Console frame if the Console utility is running prior to the RUN_TEST project of the build system.

   
"Program Name" will generate a new Console window frame, (card box) with that title and "Page Name" will generate a new tab on that frame with "Page Name" for a title (card). Although the labels imply program and page name they my be any classification that will server to order the Console output.