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Console2: Tabbed Command Prompt

6th July 2006, 01:01 am

Another open source tool appears on the web.
DownloadSquadLink Console: Tabbed command prompt for Windows.

This one is really useful to me. We are using console when we can’t do everything with mouse clicks. For example, we might want to compile a cs from the visual studio command prompt, we can’t do from the normal command prompt because the assemblies are not referenced(of course you can do, but it is not out of the box)

Console is an application that allows you to use the command prompt. Not only the command or cmd but also anything we would like. Here is the settings windows that we do the configurations.

settings.png

Using the settings window we can add new consoles. Actually we can directly edit the exml file. Here is my xml file configured for visual studio 2003 and 2005 command prompt, and windowspower shell 

 
<tabs>
		<tab title="Console">
			<console shell="" init_dir=""/>
			<cursor style="0" r="255" g="255" b="255"/>
			<background type="0" r="0" g="0" b="0">
				<image file="" relative="0" extend="0" position="0">
					<tint opacity="0" r="0" g="0" b="0"/>
				</image>
			</background>
		</tab>
		<tab title="cmd">
			<console shell="cmd.exe" init_dir=""/>
			<cursor style="0" r="255" g="255" b="255"/>
			<background type="2" r="0" g="0" b="0">
				<image file="" relative="0" extend="0" position="0">
					<tint opacity="65" r="0" g="0" b="0"/>
				</image>
			</background>
		</tab>
		<tab title="Windows Power Shell" icon="C:\Program Files\Windows PowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe">
			<console shell="powershell.exe" init_dir=""/>
			<cursor style="8" r="255" g="255" b="255"/>
			<background type="0" r="0" g="0" b="0">
				<image file="" relative="0" extend="0" position="0">
					<tint opacity="0" r="0" g="0" b="0"/>
				</image>
			</background>
		</tab>
		<tab title="Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt">
			<console shell="cmd.exe /k ""C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\vcvarsall.bat"" init_dir=""/>
			<cursor style="11" r="255" g="255" b="255"/>
			<background type="0" r="0" g="0" b="0">
				<image file="" relative="0" extend="0" position="0">
					<tint opacity="0" r="0" g="0" b="0"/>
				</image>
			</background>
		</tab>
		<tab title="Visual Studio .NET 2003 Command Prompt">
			<console shell="cmd.exe /k "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Common7\Tools\vsvars32.bat" init_dir=""/>
			<cursor style="4" r="255" g="255" b="255"/>
			<background type="0" r="0" g="0" b="0">
				<image file="" relative="0" extend="0" position="0">
					<tint opacity="0" r="0" g="0" b="0"/>
				</image>
			</background>
		</tab>
	</tabs>


Here is the result what we get for it.

powershell.pngaction1.png

Very useful and we have got the power of console…

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  1. Raju:

    Thank you sir! I have been struggling to get Console2 to open in a particular directory (the latest build of SF SVN). It just seems that if you have an argument in the init_dir parameter, Console does not like it. On the other hand if shell=”cmd /k cd ” seems to work just fine.

    Hmm.. Must be just me. Also, you xml file helped me set up Cygwin the way I wanted it to be. So thank you.

    29 April 2008, 5:40 pm

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