Processing and NetBeans
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Integration and Hardware
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2 years ago
There have been several posts recently by people who wish to avoid using the processing ide (and presumably are also put off using eclipse for one reason or other). Personally I prefer netbeans and I thought I would write a guide, but then my friend google found this (
broken link removed 4/March/2012 perhaps I will write my own guide) which I think does the job quite well (except I wouldn't worry about serialization). If you are more and ambitious and want to run processing opengl applets (or other native libraries) then take a look at my
blog. Guide was written for 64 bit linux, but if you have got this far I hope you know you will need *.dll binaries instead of *.so binaries for windows. Since processing version 1.5 you need only need select the correct directory. The beauty of netbeans is you get code completion, integrated junit testing, support for git/subversion etc.etc. In my opinion the code completion more than makes up for the loss of the terse *.pde syntax. If terse syntax is important to you, try switching to processing.py or pyprocessing then Eric4/Eric5 is a great ide, ruby-processing is even more elegant, and for mac users there is a textmate
bundle, for anyone else you can get by with
jEdit. I've not tried it, (
I'm not a mac person) but apparently there is also a textmate bundle for
vanilla processing.