# Processing 4.0 alpha 6 available!

**URL:** <https://discourse.processing.org/t/processing-4-0-alpha-6-available/31172>\
**Category:** Processing\
**Created:** [July 11, 2021, 4:00pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/processing-4-0-alpha-6-available/31172 "2021-07-11T16:00:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![glv](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/glv/32/18785_2.png) [@glv](https://discourse.processing.org/u/glv)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2021, 4:00pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/processing-4-0-alpha-6-available/31172/1 "2021-07-11T16:00:02Z")

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Looking good @ProcessingOrg !

> **[Release Processing 4.0 alpha 6 · processing/processing4](https://github.com/processing/processing4/releases/tag/processing-1275-4.0a6)**
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> Revision 1275 – 10 July 2021
> Code completion is back!
> Added a new Movie Maker that creates MP4s and Animated GIFs!
> And a new color scheme sure to bring out the cranks!
> New Features
> 
> Movie Maker has...

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/processingfoundation1/original/2X/c/c1c667cd68d96a19aef6b2b54eebcd7f79a7a926.png)

`:)`

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**Author:** ![CodeMasterX](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/codemasterx/32/2942_2.png) [@CodeMasterX](https://discourse.processing.org/u/CodeMasterX)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2021, 9:28am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/processing-4-0-alpha-6-available/31172/2 "2021-07-13T09:28:14Z")

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I am not too informed and never followed the development of processing so… when is v4 going to come out? Somewhen in 2022? Later?

Well in any case, have a nice day.

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**Author:** ![glv](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/glv/32/18785_2.png) [@glv](https://discourse.processing.org/u/glv)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2021, 10:06am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/processing-4-0-alpha-6-available/31172/3 "2021-07-13T10:06:00Z")

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> [@CodeMasterX](#):
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> when is v4 going to come out?

Maybe in August? _Emphasis_ on the _maybe_… I do not know!  
See below:

> [@birthday Celebrating Processing 20th Anniversary](https://discourse.processing.org/t/celebrating-processing-20th-anniversary/30797):
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> Hi everyone wave As you may already know, this year is 20th anniversary of Processing! We think it’s nice to do something as a community towards August when Processing was “born” hatching_chick baby_chick Do you have any ideas? One idea we came up with is each of us make a poster or a card and submit them on discourse (here) / OpenProcessing / social media to make a gallery. If you have any ideas, feel free to share them on this thread memo

The Github repositories have more information.  
Some _excerpts_ are below and there is _detailed information_ on GitHub for the _full context_.

[GitHub - processing/processing: Source code for the Processing Core and Development Environment (PDE)](https://github.com/processing/processing) states:

> Using a [4.0 release](https://github.com/processing/processing4/releases) (even an alpha or beta version) is recommended if you find an issue.

[GitHub - benfry/processing4: Processing 4.x releases for Java 17](https://github.com/processing/processing4) states:

> We don’t have a schedule for a final release. This work is being done by a [tiny number of people](https://github.com/processing/processing4/graphs/contributors?from=2019-10-01&to=2021-12-31&type=c) who continue working on it, unpaid, because they care about it.

I currently use both and will report issues as I see them.  
They fixed 2 issues in last release that I was going to report!  
Seems like there is active work on this.

`:)`

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**Author:** ![hamoid](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/hamoid/32/58_2.png) [@hamoid](https://discourse.processing.org/u/hamoid)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2021, 1:01pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/processing-4-0-alpha-6-available/31172/4 "2021-07-14T13:01:06Z")

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Good to hear about the progress 🙂

I’m seeing a very noisy console. Seems to be printing these every time I press a key:

```auto
PPS: Starting
PPS: Done

```

and when I run the program:

```auto
processing.mode.java.runner.Runner attempting to attach to VM
processing.mode.java.runner.Runner socket for VM not ready
processing.mode.java.runner.Runner attempting to attach to VM
processing.mode.java.runner.Runner attached to the VM

```

Is that blue color in the IDE final? I prefer if the IDE is not competing for attention with my visuals 🙂

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**Author:** ![CodeMasterX](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/codemasterx/32/2942_2.png) [@CodeMasterX](https://discourse.processing.org/u/CodeMasterX)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2021, 8:16am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/processing-4-0-alpha-6-available/31172/5 "2021-07-15T08:16:45Z")

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> [@hamoid](#):
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> Is that blue color in the IDE final? I prefer if the IDE is not competing for attention with my visuals

There would probably be a setting in the preferences. They probably thought of that. They might even add image background support (for those who want it). But yeah, it would be neat to look at it for a while, however it would be annoying at most after a month.

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**Author:** ![glv](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/glv/32/18785_2.png) [@glv](https://discourse.processing.org/u/glv)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2021, 12:27pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/processing-4-0-alpha-6-available/31172/6 "2021-07-17T12:27:43Z")

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Hello,

Information about the _roadmap_ is here:

> **[GitHub - benfry/processing4: Processing 4.x releases for Java 17](https://github.com/benfry/processing4)**
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> Processing 4.x releases for Java 17. Contribute to benfry/processing4 development by creating an account on GitHub.

Information about the _release_ is here:

> **[Releases · benfry/processing4](https://github.com/benfry/processing4/releases)**
>
> Processing 4.x releases for Java 17. Contribute to benfry/processing4 development by creating an account on GitHub.

There is a section on _Design and Themes_ and it states:

> If you like them, great! If not, please hold your complaints.

There is also a Tweet on Twitter about the color schemes:  
[https://twitter.com/ben\_fry/status/1409968426093735941](https://twitter.com/ben_fry/status/1409968426093735941)  
From the Tweet:

 ![E5E2PM7WYAkXayn](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/processingfoundation1/original/2X/6/6417a8b9679bfabf6b4ee619e14227f112cab3c3.png)

Is Tweet capitalized?  
_[Our style guide for curation of Moments | X Help](https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/curationstyleguide)_

`:)`

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**Author:** ![matheplica](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/matheplica/32/21035_2.png) [@matheplica](https://discourse.processing.org/u/matheplica)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2021, 12:49pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/processing-4-0-alpha-6-available/31172/7 "2021-07-20T12:49:41Z")

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Thanks for this new version.  
It’s an excellent work : I like new theme, I’m more motivated to work with it.

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**Author:** ![glv](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/glv/32/18785_2.png) [@glv](https://discourse.processing.org/u/glv)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2021, 7:01pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/processing-4-0-alpha-6-available/31172/8 "2021-07-20T19:01:37Z")

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Hello folks!

See item #5:

> [@Processing 20th Anniversary - Community Celebration](https://discourse.processing.org/t/processing-20th-anniversary-community-celebration/31327):
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> Hi everyone, You might know that [Processing’s 20th anniversary is coming up in August](https://twitter.com/ProcessingOrg/status/1413484593416654852?s=20). We would love to help the community celebrate the weekend of August 20-22, 2021 and share and want to help with that. 1) You can create a in-person or virtual event, which we can share via the PF website, 2) Share projects and tutorials to #pcd2021share, 3) Make a real or virtual cake and share to #pcd2021cake, 4) And you checkout the fundraiser at [Hic et Nun](https://github.com/hicetnunc2000c), 5) the Processing 4.0 launch, 6) [processing.org](http://processing.org) r…

`:)`