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Processing 2: Creative Programming Cookbook

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849517942
Length 306 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Processing 2: Creative Programming Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting Started with Processing 2 FREE CHAPTER 2. Drawing Text, Curves, and Shapes in 2D 3. Drawing in 3D–Lights, Camera, and Action! 4. Working with Data 5. Exporting from Processing 6. Working with Video 7. Audio Visualization 8. Exploring Computer Vision 9. Exploring JavaScript Mode 10. Exploring Android Mode 11. Using Processing with Other Editors Index

Installing tools


Processing tools are little applications that extend the PDE. Processing comes with a standard set of tools: a color selector, a tool to create fonts, a tool to create movies, and some other useful things.

Getting ready

There is an overview of available tools on the Processing website at http://processing.org/reference/tools/. This overview includes all standard tools and tools made by people from the Processing community. At the moment, there aren't that many tools available, but the number of quality tools might grow in the future.

How to do it...

Processing 2 has a new feature to install tools in an easy way: the Tool Manager. You can find the Tool Manager by going to Tools | Add Tool…. The Tool Manager works the same way as the Library Manager we've discussed in the Installing libraries recipe. Just like with libraries, not all tools are available in the Tool Manager. If you find a tool online, you can install it manually in the tools directory. This procedure is the same as installing a library manually. The Tool Manager looks as shown in the following screenshot:

How it works...

Tools are installed in the tools directory in your sketchbook. Each tool directory usually contains two directories, one for the tool, which contains the tool JAR file, and one with the Java source code. This JAR file is executed from the tool menu.

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Processing 2: Creative Programming Cookbook
Published in: Sep 2012
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