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Error with "Add Mode"
I have just downloaded Processing IDE for my Windows machine but whenever I try to use the "Add Mode" on the upper right side to get Android Mode and Python Mode, the console at the bottom gives me the error "java.net.SocketException: Network is unreachable" as well as a little red error message at the bottom of the GUI popup that says "Could not download the listof available contributions." What am I doing wrong here? How should I go about fixing this so that I can easily add a new mode?
I have also tried to simply download the .zip file to add the Android mode manually but when I unpacked it into /processing-2.2.1/modes/AndroidMode and restart the processing application I go to "modes" on the right and still only Java shows up, no Android. How should I make Processing recognize the mode I have manually downloaded? Please help and thank you in advance.
Answers
Don't place files in Processing's installation subfolders.
Instead, place them inside your "sketchbook" folder. The same where your ".pde" files are saved.
There you'll find a "/modes" and other subfolders!
I don't see a "sketchbook" folder in the installed directory.
Actually I found the default sketchbook folder now in preferences but even when I moved the unzipped Android file to the subdirectory "modes" in that directory it did not show up.
It was not supposed to be inside the installer folder. BtW, it should stay far away from there! :(|)
Hit CTRL+ COMMA to open Preferences. There you can choose where the "sketchbook" location is. Even change its name! :-B
Again, don't touch your program installed directories! [..]
Never installed Android mode.
But I'm pretty sure that JavaScript & CoffeeScript modes can be installed manually by just dropping their uncompressed folder in "/modes"!
Yes I found the sketchbook folder now. It was in My Documents/Processing. However dropping the unzipped version of the Android mode inside the mode subdirectory did not apparently install it.
Be aware that "/modes" subfolder is supposed to have more than 1 mode.
So make sure that each mode has its own subfolder too!
For example, my CoffeeScript Mode resides in "/modes/CoffeeScriptMode/" subfolder.
Oh, OK! I got it to work now, thank you!