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How do i render sketches? (Read 1025 times)
moof
How do i render sketches?
Feb 23rd, 2007, 3:03pm  
Hello mates, im very new to this program, and i wanted to just try to render something to see how it works.

I went to the learning section of the site, and found a cool Spring effect. I put the code in, and i press Play, and it shows the same.

My questions:

How can i render this and what kind of files will it be?
Can i make the render into an .exe or a java file, so others can view it on their computers?

Thanks for the help.
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JohnG
Re: How do i render sketches?
Reply #1 - Feb 23rd, 2007, 3:25pm  
What you want is the "Export" option. It doesn't "render" it really, what you see is a program, not a movie, and what you get out of the export is a program as well rather than any kind of pre-computer video or suchlike.

Export will create a web-version of the sketch, you just need to upload the contents of the "applet" directory that it creates to a web server, and anyone with Java can come along can play with the sketch.

Export Application will create (in essence) a .exe version of the program which people can run themselves.
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moof
Re: How do i render sketches?
Reply #2 - Feb 23rd, 2007, 3:41pm  
Oh, thanks

But i get this error when trying to Export Application:

C:/Documents and Settings/xxx/Skrivebord/processing-0124/processing-0124/..java:0:0:0:0: Semantic Error: The input file "C:/Documents and Settings/xxx/Mine dokumenter/Processing/spring/application.windows/spring.java" was not found.

I've dobbelchecked, the file is there. But its marked as a .txt file, wich means: Icon looks like a notepadicon, but the filename and type is spring.java .
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jaylfk
Re: How do i render sketches?
Reply #3 - Feb 25th, 2007, 3:29am  
The problem you've got is simple.

Windows is hidding the second extension of files. (e.g mysketch.pde.txt will be shown as mysketch.pde, but in fact for windows, it's a txt file)

You must move the spring.java file from your sketch folder to c:\
Then > Start Menu > run > type in cmd and press enter

In the command window type this :

cd c:  (press enter)
ren spring.java.txt spring.java  (press enter)

You can move spring.java to the its original sketch folder.

Now i think you can export as application without errors.

I hope this will help. Wink
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