Hi All,

I'm really new to processing, so any help is greatly appreciated. Been searching around for an answer on the forums / google but couldn't find much information.

Here's what I'd like to do. (using newest version of processing).

I have a sketch from a library for this book ( Generative Design). I want to record the output of the sketch into a series of video files and turn it into a video. I am interested in using the video as a backdrop for some fun animation under text in After Effects.

I want to record the output of the sketch, but the sketch has a menu embedded in it with multiple sliders to control the sketch. I think it's great because you can do some fun stuff with the sketch by changing the sliders. Anyway, I want to remove the menu from the sketch an use it in an external java window (applet?) so that when I record the output of the main sketch (main draw?) then it will not include the "menu" label and sliders within it. I found out about Control P5 and it says that it's possible to have sliders and controls in an external window. The sketch I'm using also runs the Control P5 library. Here's the thing — I don't really understand how to move the menu from the sketch into an external window. Can anyone help? The original sketch is sectioned off into multiple tabs — and I can't quite  figure out how the main sketch references the various tabs (couldn't find much information on this from googling either, but maybe i'm missing something).

Anyway, if I'm not being very clear I apologize. Any help is greatly appreciated. Let me know if I can clear anything up.

Here is the original  sketch.

http://www.generative-gestaltung.de/M_1_5_02_TOOL (i can provide code too, if you can't get it off that website (I think you can)

and here is a link to code for creating external frames with control P5

http://www.sojamo.de/libraries/controlP5/examples/extra/ControlP5frame/ControlP5frame.pde

Thanks all,