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stopfocus Junior Member Offline Posts: 62	Simple syntax question Aug 20th, 2009, 2:31pm   Just coming over to proccesing from learning PHP and I wanted to know if there was a way to make this bit of code valid -------------------------- void setup(){ size(200,200); smooth(); background(0,0,0); String x="ellipse"; x(100,100,20,20); } -------------------------- I just want to replace x with ellipse to call it as a function.

antiplastik YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 699 France	Re: Simple syntax question Reply #1 - Aug 20th, 2009, 2:36pm   AFAIK, no. But depending on what you want to achieve, there are maybe workarounds.

PhiLho  YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 4190 Near Paris (France)	Re: Simple syntax question Reply #2 - Aug 20th, 2009, 10:44pm   You can do that with reflection, but it is an overkill. As antiplastik said, there are better alternatives...

NoahBuddy Ex Member	Re: Simple syntax question Reply #3 - Aug 22nd, 2009, 1:14am   If you are only trying to make code writing more efficient, you can make a function called x: Code: void setup() {  ...  x(100,100,20,20);  ... } void x(int x, int y, int w, int h) {  ellipse(x,y,w,h); }

bartk Ex Member	Re: Simple syntax question Reply #4 - Aug 23rd, 2009, 10:54am   NoahBuddy wrote on Aug 22nd, 2009, 1:14am: If you are only trying to make code writing more efficient, ... I wouldn't call that efficient though.

PhiLho  YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 4190 Near Paris (France)	Re: Simple syntax question Reply #5 - Aug 23rd, 2009, 11:51am   It saves some keystrokes, at the cost of obscurity... I don't think that's the purpose of the OP, but we don't know the real goal...