BeanShell Scripting and accessing classes from the PDE

riceje7

BeanShell Scripting and accessing classes from the PDE

in Contributed Library Questions • 1 year ago

So i am trying to get scripting running in Processing using BeanShell as a Java library. I can currently run code from a file but when trying to access classes that are not in processing.core, java, or an imported library, i.e. an sketches inner class created in the PDE i get an error that says the interpreter from beanshell can't find the class in the namespace. for example: if i had an external script file that contained the code

MyClass mc = new MyClass();

and MyClass is a class defined in a tab in the sketch it would throw the error. I am assuming that this is due to the fact that beanshell looks for .java files in the namespace, or so i read on their site, and that the classes saved in Processing are .pde files. i also read that there were complications or something with inner classes, i can't find the post i read online about all this, but it's on the beanshell website.

my question is does anyone know of a method to make the sketches inner classes available to the beanshell interpreter.so that i can use the sketches inner classes in scripts?

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PhiLho

Re: BeanShell Scripting and accessing classes from the PDE

1 year ago

Yes, inner classes cannot be called directly. You have to use a special syntax, like SketchName.MyClass or SketchName$MyClass (the latter is used when using reflection).

rbrauer

Re: BeanShell Scripting and accessing classes from the PDE

1 year ago

Are you using Beanshell2 ( http://code.google.com/p/beanshell2/)? I think I have some examples that work with PDE classes, I'll look them up later.

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