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amoeba
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"Advanced subjects" topic
« on: May 26th, 2004, 6:49pm » |
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A lot of posts on the forums now talk about fairly Java-specific issues, mostly due to people using Java functionality to augment Processing. I am personally guilty of this, since I usually combine Java and Processing these days. Also, quite a few posts deal with undocumented features or unorthodox ways of using Bagel.
It strikes me that these discussions are great for the more advanced Processing users, but might seem off-putting to beginners, or simply peripheral to "normal" use of Processing. Ben alluded to this "problem" in this post:
on May 19th, 2004, 3:25pm, fry wrote:| i see.. it's in any app running java, not a question of programming java applets. i was getting concerned about the processing board turning into a java programming free-for-all.. |
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Maybe it would an idea to start a separate topic for advanced or java-related topics. Then people who want to talk about using Processing that way (like me, for instance) can migrate their discussions there, while other users remainly blissfully ignorant of Java...
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marius watz // amoeba
http://processing.unlekker.net/
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REAS
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Re: "Advanced subjects" topic
« Reply #1 on: May 26th, 2004, 8:18pm » |
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Great suggestion. Ben and I had a conversation about this last week and had decided to make a new section. Then I became distracted and forgot. I'm glad to hear other people think it's important as well. It will be called something like "Integration". I'll put it up right now...
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kevinP
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Re: "Advanced subjects" topic
« Reply #2 on: May 26th, 2004, 9:41pm » |
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on May 26th, 2004, 8:18pm, REAS wrote:...
It will be called something like "Integration". I'll put it up right now... |
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Hi Casey,
"Integration" -- I saw it and it's a good idea, as there are a lot of Flash/Director/embedded applet/etc. discussions, but I wonder if Mario's suggestion might be closer to something like "Extends Java" -- i.e. about Processing's role within its parent language and the native Java alternatives available to advanced users (such as Tom's reference elsewhere to the Java equivalent of splitInts()).
Just my 2 cents,
-Kevin
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Kevin Pfeiffer
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REAS
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Re: "Advanced subjects" topic
« Reply #3 on: May 28th, 2004, 8:00am » |
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Kevin,
What do you suggest? A fourth category within that section called "Processing and Java"?
I was hoping this could fit into the new "Integration" category. We could alter the wording here to open the category up.
If it's a matter of syntax, like the splitInts() example, I think that should go into the Syntax category.
+ Casey
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kevinP
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Re: "Advanced subjects" topic
« Reply #4 on: May 28th, 2004, 10:34am » |
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on May 28th, 2004, 8:00am, REAS wrote:
What do you suggest A fourth category within that section called "Processing and Java"
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Hmmm... (eating my words)  When it come to forum folders, I believe that less is more.
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Kevin Pfeiffer
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