Could someone please explain what is goes on when installing Processing on Windows?
Actually all I did was I downloaded ZIP-file onto an external USB drive and unzipped it onto the same drive.
This resulted in a new folder with file Processing.exe and subfolders core, java, lib, modes and tools which are filled with other non-empty subfolders.
On first running Processing.exe new Processing folder was created on my C://desktop/myDocuments containing subfolders examples, libraries, modes, templates,tools. All these empty.
No “skatchbook” folder was created where sketched are supposed to be stored and no “data” folder where images are supposed to be stored.
This looks confusing.
Questions.
why two separate folders for Processor are created with duplicated subfolders names (modes and tools)?
Could I combine them in a single folder on an external drive (I feel uncomfortable to keep my work on C drive where Windows is installed)
Could I remove the empty folder with the same nemes (modes and tools)?
Where folders Skatchbook and Data needs to be created?
Is it obligatory to store skatched in a folder named Skatchbook? Same question about folder Data for images.
I sometimes use a portable USB stick for projects that I demo and change the sketchbook location.
The preferences.txt location can’t be modified in Preferences.
Make a copy of it if you wish for portability.
I have recompiled the source code to make it portable at one time; it did work but I did need to use this for most of my needs.
I would keep the folder “Processing” (can be renamed) and contents as is and copy to your preferred location.
Try opening a few of the “examples” (read only) and “save as”.
I also noticed that if I run a scatch from the USB drive, a new folder called “Processing” is created in My Documents. If I delete this folder, the scatch would not start sayng that this skatchbook is no longer available. But the second attempt succeeds, yet advised that a library is not available.
So even if a skatch is sitting on an external drive an added library gets onto MyDocuments. Moreover, if Imove the added library folder from MyDocuments onto the external drive, the scatch still looks for it in MyDocuments.
Is there a way to force it not to depend on MyDocuments folder?
Yes it worked! I changed the path in the Preferences and then observed that it has been changed in preferences.txt. I delited Processing in MyDocuments, run the scketch from USB drive. It asked for the Video library which I added and it added to USB drive.
Yet I understand that if I attempt to run it on another computer? I will have to copy my preferences.txt there.
The problem might be to know where exactly to topy it as on another computer the path shown on the example may not exist. On my computer there is no GLV folder at all. So I have to run Processing first and then replace the preferences.txt
