How to find information in 'Processing Core Javadoc'?

amaia · January 5, 2019, 11:12pm

Hello:

In ‘Processing Core Javadoc’ I can read about IntList, PImage, or Table even if I don’t understand everything (I´m newbie…), but sometimes it is very difficult to find what I want
Imagine the last scenario:

I’m reading in the reference about createFont.
I copy the example and run it .
Now I can see my font-list starts at index 479
So what I want is to look for information to change the index in printArray(fontList) and see the first font
I click on ‘Processing Core Javadoc’, but there is nothing that says printArray in all classes… none that says array ???;
Ahhhhh…okay, is that I’m in CreateFont.
I go back to the reference to find printArray. There is nothing about my question, so I click again on the link ‘Processing Core Javadoc’…IT shows the same page

This example is only one… I suppose it’s not easy to explain for newbies the structure of the javadoc… If you think so, the easy question is about the index of printArray
In the end I always end up there, and then here, the last chance

Thank you and very happy for your help learning Processing, OOP and English at the same time!!

kll · January 6, 2019, 2:13am

if you expected that that link on the reference header to
http://processing.github.io/processing-javadocs/core/
is a item specific link, we have bad luck.

but right, how to search anything in there?
top middle you find the
[INDEX] tab ( button)
now can use the browser find [ctrl][f]
and type in that little window

printArray

you find it and it links to
http://processing.github.io/processing-javadocs/core/processing/core/PApplet.html#printArray-java.lang.Object-

but i think this is even less helpful as

if you want to see what is behind it:

github.com

processing/processing/blob/master/core/src/processing/core/PApplet.java#L4275


      
            static public void println(float what) {
              System.out.println(what);
              System.out.flush();
            }
          
            static public void println(double what) {
              System.out.println(what);
              System.out.flush();
            }
          
            static public void println(String what) {
              System.out.println(what);
              System.out.flush();
            }
          
            /**
             * @param variables list of data, separated by commas
             */
            static public void println(Object... variables) {
          //    System.out.println("got " + variables.length + " variables");
              print(variables);

amaia · January 9, 2019, 1:08pm

Thank for the help: the way to look for information will be useful for me, I hope;)… the code is totally out of my reach, but thanks anyway
I was watching your blog: very cool…

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