How can you change the standard name of a file when you open up processing?

LucianoHag

I've searched everything!

Lord_of_the_Galaxy

Standard name?
You mean that name - sketch<Date>.pde?

P14082003

i'd like to know aswell

colouredmirrorball

Do you want to

• have a new default name for a new sketch other than sketch<date/time>.pde; or

• open an existing project upon startup?

Lord_of_the_Galaxy

I think the first option. Is it possible.

jeremydouglass

I'm not sure what @LucianoHag or @P14082003 are asking for, specifically, but here is some background on sketch naming that might be helpful:

The Processing editor coordinates the default names of both pde files and the folders they are in (as they must match). If you export a sketch and look at the generated .java file you will see that there is a Java class named after the sketch name: for this reason the sketch name must be a valid name for a Java class.

1. cannot start with a number
2. no spaces
3. no special characters

For a related previous discussion, see:

• https://forum.processing.org/two/discussion/776/name-of-sketch-as-variable-type

benja

You can change the default-naming of your sketches. In the preferences.txt file there are two relevant lines:

editor.untitled.prefix=sketch_
editor.untitled.suffix=yyMMdd

Change them to what ever you want, but keep in mind what jeremydouglass wrote about valid names in java.

jeremydouglass

Thanks @benja !

So, for example:

editor.untitled.prefix=bosquejo_
editor.untitled.suffix=MMyy_

will produce:

bosquejo_1216_a

To be safe, edit preferences.txt only when Processing is not running.

You can find a quick link to the text file at the bottom of the Menu > File > Preferences dialog box.