Hi,

I'm currently running my extended PApplet (Visualiser extends PApplet) with the following code:

public static void main(String[] args){
     PApplet.main(new String[] {"visualiser.Visualiser"});
}

However, I would now like to integrate it with other non-processing Java code.  I would like my Visualiser as an object stored in another class, so the static PApplet.main(String[] args) method is obviously not going to cut it.  A new instance of the Visualiser that I have no handle/reference to isn't useful.

I had assumed the method run() in PApplet was the way to do this, like so:


PApplet papplet = new papplet();
papplet.run();


However, this is just running briefly before quitting with no PApplet on screen; a Java app bounces in my Dock a few times and quits.

The method init() also doesn't seem to offer the functionality I'm looking for; it runs a persistent Java app, but, alas, no PApplet appears.

I thought rather than blindly groping through more methods to try and find the one I'm after I'd ask.  Does a method exist that does what I'm after?

I also realise that run() or init() may well be the methods I'm looking for, but that I've been stupid and forgotten something important about threads or similar and consequently haven't wrapped the method calls in the correct code.

Many, many thanks in advance for any help!
Stephen