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metasoarous
trouble getting Processing to find libraries
Feb 12th, 2009, 8:09pm  
I'm trying to use the controlP5 GUI library, but am having trouble getting Processing to find the libraries. From what I've read, the library needs to be installed in the libraries folder in my sketchbook directory. I've tried both putting the controlP5 folder in the libraries folder, and have also tried pulling out the controlP5.jar file into the libraries folder, and in each case calling import controlP5.*; produces an error which indicates that the package does not exist. Am I misunderstanding something here?
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PhiLho 
Re: trouble getting Processing to find libraries
Reply #1 - Feb 12th, 2009, 10:42pm  
Must be:

<sketch folder>\libraries\controlP5\library\controlP5.jar
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metasoarous
Re: trouble getting Processing to find libraries
Reply #2 - Feb 12th, 2009, 11:02pm  
Right, that is exactly where it is, and it's still not working. I'm running Processing 1.0.1 on Leopard and simply trying out one of the examples from the controlP5 website. So far as I can tell, I'm doing everything right, except that it is just not working. Is there ANYTHING anyone can think of that would be preventing this from working? I'm having the same problem with interfascia. Ahhh!
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metasoarous
Re: trouble getting Processing to find libraries
Reply #3 - Feb 12th, 2009, 11:12pm  
Ah - I restarted my computer and things seem to be working properly now. Restarting Processing alone didn't though. Curious... Thanks for the help.
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bingomanatree
Re: trouble getting Processing to find libraries
Reply #4 - Feb 21st, 2009, 7:32pm  
The catch for MacOSx users is that applications on the MacOSX are technically folders -- the library folder is "Inside" the application; you have to right click (control click) on the app to find the library.
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fry
Re: trouble getting Processing to find libraries
Reply #5 - Feb 21st, 2009, 8:40pm  
bingomanatree wrote on Feb 21st, 2009, 7:32pm:
The catch for MacOSx users is that applications on the MacOSX are technically folders -- the library folder is "Inside" the application; you have to right click (control click) on the app to find the library.

No, don't do that. Read the "Libraries" item on the changes page:
http://processing.org/reference/changes.html#0162
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metasoarous
Re: trouble getting Processing to find libraries
Reply #6 - Feb 21st, 2009, 8:54pm  
Right, I have it in the libraries folder now as instructed on the change page. I think that the reason why I had to restart my computer was that I tried to run the application before I did have the library in the right spot, and I think that that wigged out the processing environment (or something weird). As I said though, once I restarted the computer, it worked splendidly. Well, splendidly expect that text boxes still don't work in ControlWindows.
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