Processing 2.0: so frustrating and disappointing!!!

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cageehv

Processing 2.0: so frustrating and disappointing!!!

in General Discussion • Other • 4 months ago

Hi All,

In short: I've been an enthousiastic Processing user for more than five years now. I've written my own libraries and used Processing for many of my artworks. I also taught several Processing workshops. Enough experience, I would say.

At the moment I'm using three computers daily: 1 Windows XP Pro desktop, 1 Windows 7 Enterprise desktop and 1 Windows 7 Home Premium desktop.

Processing 1.5.1 runs smoothly on all three (although very bad Android doesn't work anymore on 1.5.1!)

Processing 2.0 is causing serious problems on all three machines...

When I run a simple graphic sketch (using P2D, P3D) it will give FRAMEBUFFER errors on all three machines and won't work at all.

The only way to run Android sketches is using the oldest (XP) machine with Processing 2.0 (cannot get it to work at all on both Windows 7 machines with none of the Processing versions)

So what can I do???
Stick to Processing 1.5.1 for my apps in general and switch to Windows XP + Processing 2.0 for my Android apps? Or buy three new machines with the most expensive graphic boards I can find??? Or wait for Processing 3.0??? Or what???
(for your information: I've updated the graphic drivers to the latest versions with no positive results)

I'm very frustrated and don't know what to do at this point :-(

Rolf

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caseyreas

Re: Processing 2.0: so frustrating and disappointing!!!

4 months ago

Rolf,

I hope the thing to do it to help the developers figure out these issues so they will be fixed. GitHub is the single source the developers read to fix Processing. Please see if your issues are already reported and if so, add information. If not reported, please open an issue. We test Processing 2.0 on a wide range of machines and it's running well for us. If we don't know about the issues, they can't be fixed. Here are the links:

https://github.com/processing/processing/issues?state=open

https://github.com/processing/processing/

Casey

amnon.owed

Re: Processing 2.0: so frustrating and disappointing!!!

4 months ago

I have removed your response in this thread: https://forum.processing.org/topic/a-new-forum because it was completely unrelated to the discussion. Your response concerned your frustrations with Processing 2.0, while the discussion was about the new 2.0 forum. As Casey has stated, if you want to help further improve Processing and get problems fixed, then you can file issues on GitHub. I know that it can be frustrating when things don't work anymore, but hey, we're all in this together and both the software and support are free. Let's hope your new video card brings some sunshine.

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