Introduction

The PDE we've used until now is really basic. It doesn't have autocompletion of code or line numbers feature. It's a very good environment for beginners, or if you want to sketch out something really quickly. But if your sketches start growing bigger, and you have a lot of tabs and classes, the PDE might be a little limited. As Processing is based on Java, you can also use it with another IDE. In this chapter we'll take a look at how we can use editors such as Eclipse and IntelliJ IDEA to create Processing sketches, and we'll take a look at how Processing libraries and tools are made.