Hi Everyone,
I'm working on a Tool. This tool will help you save a thumbnail that represents your sketch. When you open this tool from the Tools menu, a frame will pop up and let you browse the sketchbook folder interactively using the thumbnails of the sketches - and when you select a processing sketch, it will load the sketch into the processing app.

Only problem is, the processing.app.tools.Tool interface only guarantees that a tool can know about it's parent window's processing.app.Editor class, and the Editor class lacks a counterpart method to the handleOpenReplace(String path) method in processing.app.Base.  So I can instantiate a new Base object - and create a new Processing window in the process - but I can't seem to figure out how to use the Tools interface to load a new sketch without cluttering the screen with more windows (which I refuse to do, fearing the wrath of John Medea).  Any ideas? Aren't I cool cats enough get a reference to the Base class that spawned my Tool? Why isn't there a getBase() method in the Editor, or perhaps an accessible global variable, or perhaps a loadSketch(String path) in Editor that defers to a loadSketchImpl in Base? Is Processing really about to ... school me in the law of demeter?

"I want to go to that one sketch - which one was it? It looks like green diamonds." There are two competing user stories for my program here:

1.) If I'm not allowed to close the editor, the response to the script is [press an accelerator][browser pops up][click thumbnail][new editor pops up][move editor out of the way][close old editor][click on new editor to return focus].

2.) If I'm allowed to close the editor, the response is [press an accelerator][browser pops up][click thumbnail][sketch loads in editor and pop up closes].

One of these is appropriate for browsing and one one isn't - that's why Firefox, Opera, Safari, Konquerer, Internet Explorer, and all Microsoft and Apple file browsers made after 1995 don't open up a new tab but open in the same tab when you click on a link.

After peeling through the source code, though, I see that though most fields are static in Base, the list of editors isn't -

java.util.List<Editor> editors =
   Collections.synchronizedList(new ArrayList<Editor>());

I'm not sure why this isn't static - that must be the reason why handleClose( Editor editor ) isn't static.