Hi-

New to the board and new to Processing (or is it Proce55ing/)

I made a version of the "TIX" clock (here at my web site: http://ffaat.pointclark.net/blog/archives/116-The-TIX-Clock-and-Processing-1.0.h...

When exported as a Java applet, the background colour doesn't always get set right.  It sometimes ends up as white, rather than the grey I coded.

My set-up code is here:
Code:

int  bg_col = 64;

// The statements in the setup() function 
// execute once when the program begins
void setup() 
{
  size(200/14*14, int(200/14*5));  // Size should be the first statement
  colorMode(HSB,255);
  stroke(64);     // Set line drawing color to grey
  
  background(bg_col); //doesn't always work?
  fill(bg_col);
  rect(0, 0, width, height); //try to fix the background

  stroke(128);     // Set line drawing color to grey  
  sq_col=color(0,255,255);
  bg_col=color(0);
}
 

I even edded the extra rect() to try to force it to draw the bacground, but that also doesn't also work (all the time)

Any thoughts or suggestion?  The full code can be downloaded by following the link at the end of the blog entry.

Thanks in advance,

-Rob A>

Thanks -
I have changed the int defs to color and am always using the full HSB in calls, but it still doesn't always work.

It will allways work if I move the background call into the draw() function bu I don't think it should need that...

The documentation fort background() states:
The background() function sets the color used for the background of the Processing window. The default background is light gray. In the draw() function, the background color is used to refresh the display window between frames.

Which to my mind means that if background() is called once in the setup() routine, and never called again, Processing should still redraw the bg with that color every time draw() executes without having to reset it...

Is this a bug?

-Rob A>