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russ
Netbeans cannot find symbol
Nov 25th, 2008, 11:46pm  
Hi,

Just found Processing, loving it.  Needed to move to a more developed IDE, chose Netbeans.  Had 'cannot find symbol' for color, read it's an int, sorted.  Now have 'cannot find symbol' for stroke, rect, fill, loadFont, textFont, text, floor, sqrt!  But am fine with eg noStroke, line, box.  Any pointers?  Thanks.
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kawazu
Re: Netbeans cannot find symbol
Reply #1 - Nov 26th, 2008, 8:27am  
Can you share/post your NetBeans project configuration somewhere (seems attachments aren't allowed in this board...)? Would like to have a closer look before providing any diagnostics... Smiley
Cheers,
Kristian
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PhiLho 
Re: Netbeans cannot find symbol
Reply #2 - Nov 26th, 2008, 3:35pm  
Did you read the tutorial about using Processing in Eclipse \ Processing 1.0 Some of it should apply to NetBeans as well, like the need for the classes to extend PApplet, and of course setting the right classpath.
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russ
Re: Netbeans cannot find symbol
Reply #3 - Nov 27th, 2008, 2:48am  
Thanks for your help.  That Eclipse tut held the answer.  At first I thought "Doh!  I'm supposed to extend all classes with PApplet!  Twit!"  But that only got rid of the squiggly red lines, the program still didn't run.  The Eclipse tut explains not to extend all classes with PApplet, but to initialize the parent PApplet in the constructors of other classes.  Haven't actually tried it yet, but makes perfect sense.
Thanks again.
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PhiLho 
Re: Netbeans cannot find symbol
Reply #4 - Nov 27th, 2008, 3:26pm  
Yes, perhaps I was a bit misleading. By "need for the classes to extend PApplet", I was thinking of the main sketch classes, not the subclasses, of course.
Not all classes need the PApplet instance either, if they don't do graphics, for example, or they might use static functions like PApplet.hex() or PApplet.lerp().
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