Tip: Visualize output in the Groovy Console
For some scripting tasks, my favorite go-to tool is the Groovy Console,
and writing code with Apache Groovy.
Usually, you just spill some println
calls all over the place to display some textual information.
But there’s a little known secret. Not really secret though,
as it’s properly documented.
It’s possible to display images (like BufferedImage
or its parent java.awt.Image
)
or all sorts of rich components (from the Swing
UI toolkit, like JPanel
, JLabel
, etc.)