First, i'd like to apologize for not actually submitting these as bug reports. I simply don't have the time, but since i've been using processing for quite a while, i thought i should at least try to help. In making my latest game, i've discovered a few bugs.
Processing 2.04/1.51 share these bugs on amd64 bit processor, both Win7 64bit and Linux Mint 64 bit.
1. OpenGL 'ellipse()' slows down the framerate, from which it never recovers. Amount of slow is determined by the size of the ellipse - pretty much any ellipse does it, about 200px is enough to turn a 60 fps sketch to 30 fps. Images, lines, and rectangles don't seem to have this problem.
2. Errors do not highlight the actual error like they used to. Cursor skips to the end of tab 2, and bracket highlighting is then disabled until you type a new bracket. Would be better not to attempt to highlight error at all, as it moves me to a different tab than the one i was working on.
3. Minim is unpredictable in linux and usually freezes the program whenever minim is asked to play a new track(not always, but most of the time). Problem does not appear in windows.
4. 64-bit Linux exports from windows do not work, only work if they were exported in linux.
5. Text is randomly blurred. If designating textbox size, usually line 2 is blurred. When making single text lines, about 1/10 lines is blurry. In the above picture, you can see that the 'options' button is blurred.
It's okay if the mods wish to delete or move this post. As i said, i only want to help. Besides the time factor, i don't even understand how bug reporting works and probably won't learn. The reason i use processing is that it's pure programming. From makefiles to system path to setting up display and memory usage - these are all things i can skip and go right to game design, in processing. That's why i use it!
This game took about 10 working days to make, from scratch to final bugfixes, including sound and graphics. I can't imagine any development environment matching that speed.
I only have 32 bit versions available, because I don't have a 64 bit OS (outside of windows7, which plays 32 bit versions fine) to test on, but I hope to get those up soon.
I hope you all will enjoy this game, and I also hope that it helps motivate processing users to see processing as a serious development environment, and not only just a simple sketch maker.
I don't release my source code, because these games are a ton of work and I must find a way to profit from them. For now, I can help processing by adding it the startup screen for this game; To help spread the word about this wonderful tool. In case you're wondering, this game contains 4,656 lines of code. If I can't make some money doing it, where will I find the time to code like that? I probably won't. :(
Features include: GL lighting Fx, Streamed playlist (45 min+ of music), Achievements system, 20 Maps, Custom map editor, tower stats shown in and after game, and user selectable resolutions, including fullscreen(at least on windows).
Thanks for the comments on my other games and all the views and downloads this community gave me for Target Defense 1. Comments, suggestions, and bug reports are all welcome.
These very same applets worked before I updated. Now none of them do, even when running them from my own computer.
I get the error
Class not found: (name of sketch)
This is mostly for opengl sketches, but any sketch linking to an online file also does not run. Out of 6 games and 4 utilities i've made with processing so far, only one of them runs outside of processing, in any form (exe, applet, etc).
This is a very sad day for me. I was finally getting good in this environment.
I updated my processing to 1.21 but it didn't help.
There doesn't seem to be much discussion about this on the web, or even here for that matter.
