Dear prople,
  i am new to processing. i am developing a java application and had decided to use processing to display the structure.

I want to know how is it possible to pass values into the processing program from other java classes.

Like in this case i want to pass the values of the number of circles in each column of the sketch  from a Main class which has the main function...

here is my code....

I need a way to set  to set ni,nh,no from outside...
also later i will be needing a way to pass a 1d array.
Am using netbeans as the ide.

import processing.core.*;


public class sketch_mar20b extends PApplet {


public void setup()
{
size(600,600) ;
}
 
public void draw()
{
 background(0,0,0);
 stroke(0,120,255,120) ;
 line(0,height/2,width,height/2);
 line(width/2,0,width/2,height);
 fill(0,255,248);
 getTheEllipses(2,2,1) ;
}

public void getTheEllipses(int ni,int nh,int no)
{
  anyEllipse(width/2,height,ni) ;
  anyEllipse(width,height,nh) ;
  anyEllipse(PApplet.parseInt(width/2*3),height,no) ;
}


public void anyEllipse(int w,int h,int n)
{
 int dN = PApplet.parseInt(h/(n+2));

 if(n%2!=0)
 {
    circle(w/2,h/2);

         for(int i=1;i<=PApplet.parseInt(n/2);i++){
         circle(w/2,(h/2)-(dN*i));
         circle(w/2,(h/2)+(dN*i));
         }
 }
 else
 {
   for(int i=1;i<n;i++)
   {
     if(i%2!=0)
     {
     circle(w/2,(h/2)-((dN/2)*i));
     circle(w/2,(h/2)+((dN/2)*i));
     }
   }
 }
}

public void circle(int x,int y)
{
 ellipse(x,y,20,20) ;
}

}
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import processing.core.PApplet;


public class Main {

    public static void main(String[] args ){

/* to get num of circles from user */

                       PApplet.main(new String[] { "--bgcolor=#ECE9D8",                                sketch_mar20b" });
  }
}

thanks...