I'm working on something where I'm pulling information from a spread sheet. The idea of it is to have 2 states, one plotting information in linear fashion and on a click the state changes and all that information is then plotted onto a map. So the x and y location of the ellipse changes. I'm trying to get a transition effect from graph to map. I was wondering if anyone has any examples. I'm new with using classes and I'm having difficulty getting mine up and running. This is what I have so far for testing.

Code:

Transition t1 = new Transition (10,10,310,310);
PVector plot, mPlot;

void setup(){
size (400,400);
}
void draw (){
t1.update();
}

class Transition {
float x1,y1,x2,y2;
Transition (PVector plot, PVector mPlot){
  plot = new PVector (x1,y1);
  mPlot = new PVector (x2,y2);

}

void update ()  {
  ellipse (plot.x1,plot.x2,5,5); 
}
} 

Moving things all up in here mid post   I couldn't figure out why I couldn't reply there.

It seems that your data has a static state should you don't even need to have a running loop. Basically you would have view style one for example your graph that would draw it self at the start of the program as say a graph and then have the program re render itself to reflect the state change to a map. The logic would be something like.

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draw(){
if(map){
render your ellipses;
noloop;  #this will stop the program from re drawing
}

if (graph){
render you graph bars;
noloop;
}
}

mouseClicked(){
if (mouseX==graphButtonX  && mouseY==graphButtonY){#check to see if button is clicked
graph==true; #set the graph to draw
redraw(); #run your draw function again to update changes
}

if (mouseX==mapButtonX  && mouseY==mapButtonY){
map==true; #set the map to draw
redraw(); #run your draw function again to update changes
}

}

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your classes should reflect the handling and parsing of your input for that some silly guy wrote this book. I read it when I started,  ok I skimmed it but it was a solid skim. Its  something that is worth buying ...........Can you believe those terrible people who Just pirate books. (most people can't even give proper credit)

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Ill write a quick example that may help you tonight.

Thanks so much for the help. I'll implement this once I fix another issue. :/

You are going to wan't to make it into a function then pass the array to the function with a for loop.


int[] data = data[10];

for(int i=0,i<data.length,i++){

animationfunction(data[i]);

}