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plmd YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 1	Running P5 as a background Task Feb 17^th, 2010, 1:14am Is it possible that an exported sketch can run/going on even it is not an active window. So it can run as an background task? For example: if i render a »mandelbrot«, i don't want to keep this window in the front... Thnx for reading and helping!

antiplastik YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 699 France	Re: Running P5 as a background Task Reply #1 - Feb 17^th, 2010, 1:55am Just give it a try! There is no reason your sketch would stop if the window does not have focus.

timm

Re: Running P5 as a background Task
Reply #2 - Feb 17^th, 2010, 2:17am

I'm not shure what you really want to do. The frame of the p5 sketch isn't allways on Top, so it can be running in the background anyway...

You only could force the window to allways be active with:
import com.sun.awt.AWTUtilities;
frame.setAlwaysOnTop(true);

If "runing in backgroud" means not being visible, you can change this too:

Code:

import com.sun.awt.AWTUtilities;

boolean visible = true;
int number = 0;

void setup() {
  size(200, 200);
  //force frame to be on top
  //frame.setAlwaysOnTop(true);
}

void draw() {
  //do sth in the sketch
  background(number*5);
  number++;
  println(number);
  if(number >= 255/5) number = 0;
  
  //toggle boolean
  visible = !visible;
  //set frame visible/unvisible
  frame.setVisible(visible);
  delay(1000);
}

to_ul YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 5	Re: Running P5 as a background Task Reply #3 - Feb 17^th, 2010, 8:53am thnx very much - i got an error in reasoning....grrrrrroooooar

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