Recently I blogged about how I was going to start to use Processing. Since then I have realised that the Processing application is way too basic for me. Using Eclipse or Flash Builder much of the time I naturally looked to see if there was a way of bringing in Processing to the Eclipse environment, and very quickly I found the following link…
http://www.creativecoding.org/en/beyond/p5/eclipse_as_editor
Since Processing uses Java, I decided to download the standard Eclipse package. Following the instructions from the link above I quickly got a simple applet working. However I came across a couple of minor issues. Now I used to use Java, but many years ago, so I was quite rusty regarding the Java language, but when I create a simple applet, I immediately got this error…
The serializable class Table2 does not declare a static final serialVersionUID field of type long Table2.java /Table2/src line 4 Java Problem
Quick fix in Eclipse
… I chose the Add suppress warnings options and the following line was added…
@SuppressWarnings(“serial”)
The warning has now gone, and my applet runs.
I have no idea what the warning refers to, and I am sure that when I last did Java I never came across this, but hey! it works.
I will go through the little applet that I created soon, just to show you how to create a Processing applet within Eclipse, but the difference between using Eclipse and the actual Processing application is that the latter does all the work for you in creating a runnable Java applet, whilst with Eclipse you have to add the extra functions to make it a proper Java applet structure.
However, I personally prefer using Eclipse as I will get all the extra functionality that I need (Flash Builder plugin, other plugins, etc). Using the Processing application is just something I refuse to do – it is way too basic for me.
— alex