Currently, when running in VSCode, any .println() statement to output to the console takes the keyboard focus out of wherever it is and places it in the console. Neither is it possible to hide the console as each .println() statement will bring the console back into view and then steal keyboard focus.
The practical result of this is that it is impossible to do anything at all without explicitly killing the simulator if .println() statements are used at regular intervals (for example, to monitor a value during compute() for a data field.
By contrast, in Eclipse, the console never takes keyboard focus and there is an option to toggle whether or not the console shows when output changes. So it is possible to monitor behaviour in the console whilst simultaneously reviewing / modifying the relevant code.
Please can VSCode not force keyboard focus to the console and please also can there be an option to block the console from displaying if it has been hidden, unless we want it to display.
