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Looking for "Missing" functions? System.currentTimeMillis(), printf(), format()?
Sorry if I'm not asking in the right place. I noticed that there are methods for day(), hour(), minute(), second(), but that I have to build up my own time by day() * 86400 + hour() * 3600 + ...
This seems silly as no doubt these functions all operate off some central clock. Is there a method somewhere that gives access to it?
Similar situation, is there any formatting code akin to DecimalFormat or (better) printf?
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This is all available through Processing, it just isn't necessarily part of the documentation. I don't see how functions such as
System.currentTimeMillis()are "missing" seeing as they are perfectly accessible, even if they haven't been wrapped into aPAppletfunction.Just import the right Java libraries (use the import statement).
See also Cannot find a class or type named "Xyz"