How to open or execute an external program

hein257

I want to open an external program with proccesing (.EXE). It just needs to be started. On older posts people were talking about using an open function, but Processing says that it doesn't exist (the links to the refernce library are also not working).

erkosone

import java.util.*; import java.io.*;

Runtime rt;

int exitVal;

void setup() {

rt = Runtime.getRuntime();

try {

Process proc = rt.exec("notepad.exe");

proc.waitFor();

//exitVal = proc.exitValue();

}

catch(Exception e) {

e.printStackTrace();

}

}

void draw() { }

PhiLho

Apparently, open() has been replaced with launch().