Hi all,

I'm new to the processing api so forgive this basic question.  I am trying to figure out how to instantiate objects within main from arguments passed from the command-line.  I'm building a server and want to visualize the requests.  The code I have below is how I would normally instantiate a server object in Java, but this doesn't work when I sub-class PApplet.

Any help would be appreciated.


public class MyServerVis extends PApplet
{
   public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException
   {
       if (args.length != 1)
           throw new IllegalArgumentException("Syntax:MyServerVis <port>");
       int port = Integer.parseInt(args[0]);
       ServerSocket server = new ServerSocket(port);
       while(true)
       {
           Socket client = server.accept();
           System.out.println("Accepted from " + client.getInetAddress());
           MyServer myServer = new MyServer(client);
           myServer.start();

          PApplet.main(new String[] {"--present", "--display=1", "MyServerVis"});
       }
   }
}

public class MyServer implements Runnable {
// server code here...
}