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makedo YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 6	processes in processing Apr 5th, 2010, 2:40am   Hi all been having some fun with processing of late, I have a question though. I want to call a function from draw() that will run in the background, i.e the draw method will not wait for my method to finish executing before moving on.  Does it the flow of the program work like this? If not is it possible? Many thanks Tim

PhiLho  YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 4190 Near Paris (France)	Re: processes in processing Reply #1 - Apr 5th, 2010, 4:26am   Yes, it is called thread(ing). Just search this forum with this word (thread) to find examples on the forum.