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Ricard
sketchPath() and dataPath()
Nov 28th, 2005, 11:52am  
Hi ben,

Don't want to file this as a bug quite yet, since these functions are not formally documented yet, and don't know if it really is.

In my library I use the new methods sketchPath() and dataPath() and in the release it was stated that they return the data path and the sketch path, but it seems they require an argument, is this a bug?

Code:

./geomerative/RFont.java:86: dataPath(java.lang.String) in processing.core.PApplet cannot be applied to ()
				fontPathAlt = parent.dataPath()+File.separator+fontPath;
							  ^
./geomerative/RFont.java:90: sketchPath(java.lang.String) in processing.core.PApplet cannot be applied to ()
					  fontPathAlt = parent.sketchPath()+File.separator+fontPath;
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Ricard
Re: sketchPath() and dataPath()
Reply #1 - Nov 28th, 2005, 11:58am  
Ok, I checked the source code and it's not a bug, it's rather the way it works.

dataPath(String file) and sketchPath(String file) prepend the data and sketch paths to the strings passed as argument.
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fry
Re: sketchPath() and dataPath()
Reply #2 - Nov 28th, 2005, 2:10pm  
right, because whenever you use them, you usually are setting the path to something, for instance your code:
fontPathAlt = parent.dataPath()+File.separator+fontPath
would instead just be:
fontPathAlt = parent.dataPath(fontPath);

the release notes are just poorly writen, with the expectation that the javadoc will be what people use (though i haven't had a chance to update the javadoc yet).
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