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.

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

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 …

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

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…

How to share files between sketches?

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jeremydouglass April 30, 2019, 2:26am 7

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:

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How to share files between sketches?

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