setting up processing for NetBeans 7.3 guide

clankill3r

setting up processing for NetBeans 7.3 guide

in Integration and Hardware • 5 months ago

I get very frustrated when it comes to setting up new programs. I think most stuff i found about processing for NetBeans was unclear so here my attempt. Feel free to add suggestions to make it even better or keep it up to date.

Sorry for the retina screens, noticed to late.

1. get the latest version from https://netbeans.org/

2. open netbeans and goto File > New Project

3. In the New Project screen choose Java > Java Application

4. Now where at step 2 called Name and Location.

- give the project a name, i called it JavaTestApplication3

- choose project location if you don't like the default

- choose a project folder if you don't like the default

- now flag "Use Dedicated Folder for Storing Libraries". we do this so we don't have to copy jar's for every new project.

now click browse to change the location for the libraries folder.

I choosed my NetBeansProjects folder and made a folder there called libs, see image below:

Hit open when done, the screen should look like this:

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clankill3r

Re: setting up processing for NetBeans 7.3 guide

5 months ago

- Hit finish if you didn't allready. Now we have just a java project but we want a processing project!

5. Go to your processing application.

On a mac press right mouse > Show Package Contents

- now browse to contents/Resources/Java/core/library

here we could copy core.jar but then we can not use opengl so let's copy all .jar files.

Now navigate to the libs folder we created earlier, by me there are all ready a few files in it.

Paste the copied .jar files there.

6. You might want to use some core libraries as well to make pdf's for example.

In that case go in the package contents again and navigate to Contents/Resources/Java/modes/java/libraries

For now go to the pdf folder and then to library and copy itext.jar and pdf.jar.

Drop also those two files in the libs folder like we did in step 5.

7. Go back to NetBeans to the project we created.

Left from the code there should be Projects which your project in it.

Expand until you can see the Libraries folder and press right mouse > Add Jar/Folder...

- We don't have to select all. Select the ones i have selected in the image.

- Choose for 'Reference as' for 'Absolute Path:' if you don't you will get a promt window when you press finish asking if you want to overwrite the files (which should give no problem i guess).

- click 'Choose'

If you know further expand libraries the ones selected should be listed there:

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clankill3r

Re: setting up processing for NetBeans 7.3 guide

5 months ago

8. We are almost there!

Our code should look something like this:

And what is processing without a void draw and setup...

Do the following steps:

- import processing.core.*;

- extend your class with PApplet

- add this in the main method with your package name and your class name

PApplet.main(new String[]{yourpackagename.YourClassName.class.getName()});

- test if it works with something simple like this:

public void setup() {

size(400, 400);

}

public void draw() {

line(0, 0, width, height);

}

All should look like this:

- Now hit the green arrow in top or press F6 to run. If everything went ok, you should see a diagonal line.

- OpenGL and pdf export should also work.

hope this was helpfull!

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