Installing Libraries - General Issues

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Installing Libraries - General Issues

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Hey everyone!

I'm really sorry to bring up such an - what I suppose - easy question, but I'm getting this error constantly, despite moving around files within my sketch folder.

Question: what is the standard procedure for installing a library and all its components within a sketch folder.

I grasp the code, but the actual moving of files withing folders is generating some unexpected errors.

I've downloaded a couple of libraries. I've extracted them. I've created a 'libraries' folder in the root of my sketch folder as indicated by Processing. I've copied the 'xpto'.jar in the 'origintal' library folder to the 'libraries' folder. Now what?

Where should the remaining folders be placed? In the root of the sketch folder? Within the libraries folder? Should the files be kept in their original extracted foder?

Thanks for the time and once again, sorry for the 'easy' question :)

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thomas.di..

Re: Installing Libraries - General Issues

1 years ago

did you follow these instructions?
http://wiki.processing.org/w/How_to_Install_a_Contributed_Library

theformat..

Re: Installing Libraries - General Issues

1 years ago

Yup.

My folder structure is as showed:

Documents/
      Processing/
            projectname/
                  libraries/
                        guicomponents(library being used)
                              folder 1, 2, etc..

Processing still indicates that the library can't be found and that the package 'guicomponents' does not exist.

The weird thing is that yesterday I managed to get it working. Today, when I installed a second library for the same project, the whole thing went nuts. Now I can't even get an example from a specific library to recognize its package.

theformat..

Re: Installing Libraries - General Issues

1 years ago

...Ok, never mind.

My structure was wrong after all.

I thought the package was supposed to go into the actual program's sketch book, and not with all the developed sketches.

Thanks for the help.

thomas.di..

Re: Installing Libraries - General Issues

1 years ago

i think you mixed up "sketch" and "sketchbook"
it should look like this:

sketchbook{
// this directory can be found in the preferences : File > preferences > ...
// here are your sketches
sktech1{
    sktech1.pde
    data{ }
    etc.
}
sktech2{
    sktech2.pde
    data{ }
    etc.
}
libraries{
     theLibrary{
        examples{}
        library{
          theLibrary.jar
        }
        reference{}
        src{}
     }
}
}

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