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NaFiann
java enums in processing?
Dec 20th, 2006, 11:58am  
Hey

i am new to processing and want to make a small program.
for this program to work nicely i wanted to use enums (as they are now available in java)

however, i can't declare them, anywhere. ive imported java.util.*, which it does fine, but as soon as i want to make an enum it gives errors. can anyone help here?

thanks in advance
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JohnG
Re: java enums in processing?
Reply #1 - Dec 20th, 2006, 12:03pm  
I think enum is Java 1.5 only but processing is built on Java 1.4.
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NaFiann
Re: java enums in processing?
Reply #2 - Dec 20th, 2006, 12:05pm  
any way of using java 1.5 libraries or is that impossible?
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JohnG
Re: java enums in processing?
Reply #3 - Dec 20th, 2006, 1:28pm  
I think that Processing doesn't like 1.5 libraries unfortunately.

I think it may be possible to swap the processing version of java with 1.5 but it may be tricky. It's probably much much much easier to just rework your program so it doesn't use enums.
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fry
Re: java enums in processing?
Reply #4 - Dec 20th, 2006, 1:48pm  
you can use 1.5 libraries when you have java 1.5 installed, you cannot use 1.5 syntax (like enum, or HashMap<Integer>), unless you're building your code with eclipse or something like that, rather than the processing environment.
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