How to update a window showing file contents.
HI --
I have a text file output by my program. I can view it as a tab by clicking on the file name in the project tree. I'd like to have the tab stand alone as it's own window for easier access, so I drag the tab to the screen background and drop it off, and voila, there it is in its own window. But then as my program runs, the window doesn't fully update to show my output file's contents. It's only partial.
If it were still a tab in the main project window, I could click elsewhere, then click back, and there it all is, the complete file contents. But as its own window, this doesn't work. Apologies if I am missing something obvious, but i looked for awhile and could not find a way to update the view of a file.
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You can view logs / files per https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/setting-log-options.html or use a third-party plug-in like https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7125-grep-console.
Thanks Serge. The logs view gives a separate tab alongside system console that is indeed updated. However, that tab cannot be broken out as a standalone window. So you have to click back and forth between console and log file, something I will need to do as I have important content in each. However, it's not that big a deal, we're talking a few mouse clicks max per run. This is a nit-picky UI desire I suppose, just that I know I am facing possibly a hundred or so of these runs.
Grep Console plug-in may be a better option for you.
Yes, thanks Serge, that works pretty well. :-)