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project_saturn
Noob: Making Processing Sketches Talk to Eachother
Aug 1st, 2008, 5:46pm  
Hi I would like to run two processing sketches and make them talk to eachother. so that: what i do in one sketch would be recorded in another. ie:
if sketch 1: is a mouse draw sketch
if sketch 1: is a manipulate a chromatic scale sketch
if i draw with a mouse in sketch 1.
in sketch 2 it would change the color.

i would really appreciate any help on this.
thank you!
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PhiLho 
Re: Noob: Making Processing Sketches Talk to Eacho
Reply #1 - Aug 1st, 2008, 6:04pm  
I would look in the libraries page.
Network library might be a way, perhaps non trivial, but allowing very distant applications to communicate...
UDP might be another way to go.
If you cannot get started, I might give a try, it might be fun. I would start by searching this forum...
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project_saturn
Re: Noob: Making Processing Sketches Talk to Eacho
Reply #2 - Aug 1st, 2008, 6:45pm  
Both sketches are on my local machine.
i was thinking:
1)Should I export them as .JAR files and then:
a)would I use the "while" conditional to call one sketch with the other, and the sketch that is doing the calling, to also have its own sketch active so that sketch 1 operates inside sketch 2?
b)would i use a 3rd sketch to call both the other sketch? or sync the other two somehow?

sorry if this is obvious, im still pretty new to Processing.
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memo
Re: Noob: Making Processing Sketches Talk to Eacho
Reply #3 - Aug 1st, 2008, 8:11pm  
I think the easiest way to get the two apps communicating is via OSC (it'll work over a network, or locally - just set target IP to 127.0.0.1). The oscP5 library (http://www.sojamo.de/oscP5) is very easy to setup and use... just hava look at the examples (the oscP5sendreceive is a tiny app sending and receiving mouse clicks)...
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