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sd Junior Member Offline Posts: 68	Waiting for Draw Oct 16th, 2006, 12:47pm   Many times, we'd like to see the result of the program before it completes draw. Could a special breakpoint be included in the Processing IDE, such that when the computer reaches that line in the program, the result is displayed on the screen? This way, we would be able to see the intermediate graphics drawn in a program.
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JohnG Ex Member	Re: Waiting for Draw Reply #1 - Oct 16th, 2006, 1:48pm   You already can. Sort of. Just put return(); at the point you want to see what the result at that point is. Of course, the rest fo the code after ti in draw won't be run, but you could toggle it with a keypress or something.

sd Junior Member Offline Posts: 68	Re: Waiting for Draw Reply #2 - Oct 19th, 2006, 8:33am   Wow! cool idea!
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fry YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 2623 mass, usa	Re: Waiting for Draw Reply #3 - Oct 19th, 2006, 6:49pm   yep, that'll be a better way to do it. supporting this for the renderers would be absolute hell (i.e. not a big deal for JAVA2D, but a mess for P3D, and an amazing headache for OPENGL).