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Processing

Name: Processing
Rating: 4.6429 (7 reviews)

3.4

29 July 2018

Programming language for electronic arts.

Overview

Processing is a programming language and environment built for the electronic arts and visual design communities. It was created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook. The software exports Java applets which may be posted on the Internet and shared with other artists and designers.

What's new in Processing

Version 3.4:

Show alternate error message on Windows when jnidispatch.dll or core.jar have been removed by Windows Defender or Microsoft Security Essentials. This has been a huge headache for us. We've repeatedly submitted the software and asked Microsoft for help, but haven't had any luck. If you run into this issue and would like to help, please submit the files to Microsoft here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/filesubmission Perhaps if there are enough reports, they'll understand this is affecting a lot of people.
Contributed libraries/examples/etc that redirect to https URLs now working.
It's now possible to make your own theme file for Processing. Copy the theme.txt file from inside the Processing folder to your sketchbook folder, and then edit away. For instance, to make a dark theme:
It's now possible to copy the text of the status bar. Click the clipboard icon at the right-hand side to copy the text to the clipboard. To search immediately, use shift-click. The default search engine is Google, but you can modify that by altering the 'search.format' line in preferences.txt
Added pyde as a supported extension, so double-clicking on Python sketches will launch the PDE.
Added Double and Long versions of the data classes. Not sure if we'll keep these, but we're trying them out.
Also add subset(long) and subset(double) to PApplet
Changed the internal Sort class to use int for comparisons for better accuracy, especially when working with double and long values.
Consistently implemented write(PrintWriter) in the List and Dict classes
Added save(File) to the List and Dict classes
Prevent Table.sort() from throwing NullPointerException with empty cells
Fixed up the Welcome dialog. When closing the window or hitting ESC, the "show this" selection is recorded. Also clicking that text will toggle the checkbox on/off, as users would expect.
Redesigned the Rename window to be less ugly. Now closes when ESC is pressed, and the default action is set so hitting Enter will work properly.
Rewrite exec() to do threads, also handle fast/excessive output cases
Rewrite requestImage() to fix errors/slowness/concurrency problems
Refactoring inside the completion code
Now using Java 8u181. https://github.com/processing/processing/pull/5586
Change lack of blendMode() to a warning rather than an error in PDF
Updated the copyright and year in the launch and About screen.
A large number of changes and fixes for ARM submitted by Gottfried, who also posted 3.3.7.1 and 3.3.7.2 interim releases with some of these changes already present. Now we're back on track with 3.4.
Additional I/O improvements
Fix regressions in 3.3.7.1
OpenGL ES: Fix GLSL version number for 1.00
Add ADS1X15 Analog-to-Digital converter example
IO: pinMode() can now set pull-up and pull-down resistors on Raspbian thanks to @xranby for 64-bit help
Several new examples
IO: New example sketch showing how to use a MPR121 capacitive touch sensor fun tutorial by @msurguy forthcoming
IO: New example sketch showing how to use a BME280 environmental sensor IO: New example sketch showing how to use a TSL2561 light sensor IO: New example sketch showing how to use a PCA9685 Servo & PWM controller ...all contributed by @OlivierLD
IO: pinMode() got faster
IO: I2C now supports talking to slower devices, such as Arduino boards
Support for ARM Mali graphics was added to P2D/P3D Thanks to seongwook from the forums for his help during bringup
P3D now supports up to 4 lights on Pi using their OpenGL driver
Serial library now supports Raspbian's port naming (such as "/dev/serial0")
Enable exporting of Windows applications on ARM
Clarify SimpleInput example
Various ARM-related updates
Make P3D work on Linux SBCs using ARM Mali graphics and their ES 3.1 driver
Updates to Japanese translation
Added Russian translation
Make "loadXML(String)" handle "file not found"
Update java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError message Semi-transparent colors do not display properly in PGraphics
Fixed a crash occuring while loading certain SVGs exported from Illustrator
Support PShape.contains() on GROUP objects
Improve implementation of PShape.contains() to take the CTM into account