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meno YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 2	using processing in java without a window Apr 14th, 2010, 8:35am   hi im looking for a library that helps me getting a picture of a webcam in my program. i dont want to show it, the program will have no ui. so is it possible to use processing without a PApplet? the basic idea is to use processing to get imagedata and then pass it through the program. thanks for any input, you are very kind.

PhiLho  YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 4190 Near Paris (France)	Re: using processing in java without a window Reply #1 - Apr 14th, 2010, 8:39am   You don't need Processing to do this job. The library in Processing probably uses a Java library, so go directly at the original. If code was written from scratch, you can probably find similar libraries for Java. And, no, you can't run Processing without making a PApplet, it is central to it.

meno YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 2	Re: using processing in java without a window Reply #2 - Apr 15th, 2010, 5:13am   ok thanks. processing was the best library in this regards so i thought i can use it. then i will find other ones.