How to share files between sketches?

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how to share files between sketches?
Like I want to have a class available in two of my sketches and don’t want to copy paste it all the time.

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hmm, can you explain more?

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Let‘s say in folder A is a pde with some cool classes

he wants to use that pde in 2 different sketches being in Folders B and C

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If you’re going to edit something in your class, the best way to do this would probably be a library.
If you have the same file in multiple sketches and don’t want to edit them at some point, the easiest way would probably be copy & pasting your .pde file into a different sketch folder.
Depending on your operating system, there might be some tools that do this work for you, but since Processing only has a really basic IDE, there’s no function to do this.

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as i know, you can refer to the same file using absolute path like this:

img = loadImage("/home/humayung/Dropbox/test.png");
it worked on my linux.
just copy the full path to the file. do the same to the different sketches on different directories you wanna shared. tell me is it working

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it’s true that this works for images and fonts and svg and stuff (assets)

but OP (original poster) was wanting to have a class available in two of his sketches

so he’s talking about pde, not images.

Remark

The idea of a shared class is interesting though.

Of course library is the answer, but it’s hard to make a lib.

Below this advanced level:

OP securet could have one reference folder with a test pde and a pde for the common class.

Now we could have a 2nd sketch (or some OS tool as DongKingKong0 said) to deploy (copy) the class pde to a couple (30) of folders from a list A.

When we change the class we deploy it again to all 30 folders from the list A.

When we make a new sketch that uses the class, we add its folder to the list A and deploy again.

Nice.

(I copy and paste all the time)

Chrisir

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A related approach is compiling to jar, then including that jar in Processing (so that all sketches have access to it) – this is less complicated than making it a full library in Contributions Manager. For recent discussion see: