Display console output on a separate window [java]

Question

I'm making a tic-tac-toe game in Java and so far it's going well, but as of now, I've written my program to print to console. Is there a command to get what would currently be displayed on my console output to show up on a separate window? Something like a JOptionPane?

My console right now looks like a ticTacToe grid, and I want to maybe get a while loop to display the currentBoard to a pop-up-dialog after every set of turns. So the player can see the updated Board after every turn set.

Is this possible?

Answer 1

You can redirect System.out messages to a JTextArea or JTextPane .

Check out the Message Console class.