Processing?


dentrado

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Hi everyone! I have lurked here on the forums for a while, but now I've finally made a user account.

Now to the question (that I'm a bit surprised nobody have asked before, at least not that I can find):
Is someone going to port the programming language processing (processing.org) to pandora? It is built to be simple to use and epecially for graphics and visual stuff. It's built on java, and can also be extended with java classes I think, so if java gets ported processing shouldn't be that hard, right? I think processing looks really nice and simple to use. Here is an example of something done in processing: http://www.typotopo.com/wordscapes/.

There is also mobile processing (mobile.processing.org) built on j2me, if that makes it easier.
 
The JVM for the pandora will most likely be a J2SE and any language that works on the JVM should just work, no porting.

There already are java packages (jalimo) for very similar hardware, so it should be a breeze to get java. No work about it being bundled though.
 
The mobile version will probably be possible but I'd be surprised if the full version ends up running on Pandora. Processing is pretty picky about the java version you are using. Last I tried it wouldn't run on my machine because I had the latest version and for whatever reason it required a previous one.
 
theres a processing port to javascript; porting processing probably wont be all too hard but rather than wait you should be able to break out a web browser on day #1 and play.
 
dockthepod said:
The mobile version will probably be possible but I'd be surprised if the full version ends up running on Pandora. Processing is pretty picky about the java version you are using. Last I tried it wouldn't run on my machine because I had the latest version and for whatever reason it required a previous one.
Why would you be surprised if the full version ran on Pandora. We have 128MB of system RAM. While part of it is dedicated to framebuffer, as long as you aren't trying to do 3D with it, it's going to be largely in the same class as a PIII with a similar memory profile. Full-on Java runs on that. :D
 
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From a packaging POV it's easier to get full java and it will work. If j2me is needed, there's microemu.
 
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