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Xeon
Processing static
Nov 6th, 2007, 11:58pm  
I find I have a lot of trouble trying to make static classes in Processing. A static class wont access any non-static component, which is weird. How come I cant do this:

static class Console
{
 String[] messages = new String[10];
 static void Init()
 {
   fontConsole = loadFont("LucidaConsole-10.vlw");
 }
}

loadFont isnt static so I cant use it. What the hell is that?
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JohnG
Re: Processing static
Reply #1 - Nov 7th, 2007, 12:28am  
Any class you're creating is actually an inside class of a PApplet. Processing does some fiddling behind the scenes and wrapping all your code into one outer class.

So what your code eventually becomes is your inner clss which you're saying is static tying to access a member function of the parent class, which isn't.. and that makes no sense, so the compiler complains and says "no".
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Classiclll
Re: Processing static
Reply #2 - Nov 7th, 2007, 5:08am  
if "static" is need to be single-instance, the singleton pattern will be fit.
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