Hi guys,

I think that is my first post.

Well, I (and a couple of friends) am teaching a group of people to use processing, and we are using Linux as platform, and we faced a strange issue: Processing did not connect to the internet to download an image. Bellow, I it is possible to see a simplified code:

Code:

PImage pic;

void setup(){
  size(300,300);
  pic = loadImage("google logo url");
}

void draw(){
  image(pic, 1, 1);
}
 

The code is simplified from the original, but it show the same error we faced yesterday :S Processing highlights the 'image(pic,1,1);' line and returns a NullPointerException.

The output error message is:

java.net.UnknownHostException: "Google URL"
     

The system we were using is an Ubuntu 9.04, with Sun Java 6 installed and configured to be the standard Java - using apt-updates - and the computers are connected via proxy.
I can see two possible reasons for the error: 1- some security config; 2 - some bad java configuration.

Does someone already face this and could give a little tip?


Thanks a lot,
Paulo