Add configurable elapsed time display with format customization

[SougandhS]

This PR introduces a toggle to enable or disable the display of elapsed time in the console output in Console settings.

Added support for customizing the format of the elapsed time, allowing users to choose from multiple display styles based on their preferences or requirements.

ConsoleH.mp4

fixes : #2112

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From fbd2fdf674cf982d91c4d97bae585ee8a022e20e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eclipse Platform Bot <platform-bot@eclipse.org>
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2025 05:09:28 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Version bump(s) for 4.38 stream


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Test Results

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Results for commit 8380447. ± Comparison against base commit 80176d0.

♻️ This comment has been updated with latest results.

[SougandhS]

Hi @merks
Could you please check this PR when you are available ?

[laeubi]

Also added support for customizing the format of the elapsed time, allowing users to choose from multiple display styles based on their preferences or requirements.

I would suggest to make this a text field where the user can enter any formt wanted, and simply let empty mean its disabled.

[SougandhS]

I would suggest to make this a text field where the user can enter any formt wanted, and simply let empty mean its disabled.

Sure 👍

[SougandhS]

the user can enter any formt wanted, and simply let empty mean its disabled.

Updated as suggested

ConsoleElapsed.mp4

[laeubi]

@SougandhS thanks as the format is a bit ugly and maybe not everyone is familiar with it I would suggest that you add a litte description (e.g. a tooltip to tell what are valid I assume it has to be a java format string, but what about positional parameters?) and a preview filed that shows the result of the user input so one do not needs to start a process to see how it will look like.

As a bonus, you maybe want to have using AutoCompleteField to give the user some suggestions, or a ComboViewer with edit capability where one can choose some predefined values from the dropdown.

[SougandhS]

@SougandhS thanks as the format is a bit ugly and maybe not everyone is familiar with it I would suggest that you add a litte description (e.g. a tooltip to tell what are valid I assume it has to be a java format string, but what about positional parameters?) and a preview filed that shows the result of the user input so one do not needs to start a process to see how it will look like.

As a bonus, you maybe want to have using AutoCompleteField to give the user some suggestions, or a ComboViewer with edit capability where one can choose some predefined values from the dropdown.

Sure, I'll work on this 👍

[SougandhS]

I have updated as suggested

ConsoleVideo.mp4

[laeubi]

@SougandhS that looks good already, but in the drowdown I would use a more human readable label for the entries like in your initial PR

[SougandhS]

@SougandhS that looks good already, but in the drowdown I would use a more human readable label for the entries like in your initial PR

Will update it 👍

[SougandhS]

Hi @laeubi
Updated to human readable form just like the initial PR

ConsoleH.mp4

[laeubi]

Wow that's much more better now (and actually more than I suggested here), but seems much more user friendly now!

[SougandhS]

@laeubi

Thank you for your suggestions :)

[SougandhS]

Hi @laeubi, If there are no more changes can this be merged ? Test failures are unrelated.

[SougandhS]

Thanks a lot!

[jukzi]

Hi, just tried to use this option and found "MM:SS.mmm" gets it wrong (actually prints HH:MM:SSS), which is even visible in the preview:

[SougandhS]

Hi, just tried to use this option and found "MM:SS.mmm" gets it wrong (actually prints HH:MM:SSS), which is even visible in the preview:

hi Jörg, long time no see :D
Will check this 👍