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Processing 2?

in General Discussion  •  Other  •  1 year ago  
Are many of you already using the alpha versions of Processing 2?

I am new to processing and thinking if it is wise to jump straight to the alphas.

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Re: Processing 2?

1 year ago
The alphas are quite stable by now and, although they still come with a couple of bugs, they are fully usable for everyday purposes. Most of the bugs are hidden away in the advanced features. It is really a tradeoff between occasional bugs and new features; for example, 2.0 introduces JavaScript mode, which would be otherwise inaccessible.

Re: Processing 2?

1 year ago
Thank you for your response.  I love features :)

What about community contributed addons?  From what I have seen there are many addons that are quite commonly used.  I wonder if they are generally compatible with 2.0.

Re: Processing 2?

1 year ago
As in... tools in libraries? They should all be fully compatible with 2.0, as the core functionality hasn't changed too much. Some libraries might be broken with the new APIs, but all of the libraries that have been updated recently should work. Also, 2.0 comes with the Library and Tool Managers, which let you install libraries and tools from within the PDE.
Yeah toxicilibs is unaffected owing to the studious avoiding of anything implementation specific by Karsten Schmidt, slight gotchas are the some of the examples that use some opengl "hints" that have gone away. For example the smooth hint is now replaced by smooth(x) where x can be 2..4..8..16 (I'm not sure this is documented). Other libraries that rely on PGraphics3D to export 3D geometry, like my povwriter export library will be broken (I have a created a replacement povwriter2 library to work with processing-2.0). In general I think there will be a period of adjustment, if you can work in Eclipse or Netbeans instead of the processing ide when working with such contributed java libraries you will have a better experience than using the processing ide (unhelpful error messages).

Re: Processing 2?

1 year ago
Thank you very much.

Very useful info.