How to execute an external command/program from processing?

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salemh

How to execute an external command/program from processing?

in Programming Questions • 2 years ago

I am using processing with Arduino and could made good progress with it. I am looking for a way to execute an external program in windows once a condition has been satisfied.

Example:

When temrature is higher than x start monitoring program which will engage a webcam at certain location.

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yelele_br..

Re: How to execute an external command/program from processing?

2 years ago

May the reference could help <|;-)

http://processing.org/reference/open_.html

kitschpat..

Re: How to execute an external command/program from processing?

2 years ago

On the Mac you can call whatever you want from within Java using the syntax Runtime.getRuntime().exec("some command");

In this case, it would be just like you typed "some command" into a terminal window.

Haven't tested on Windows, but surely there's something similar.

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