Processing does not recognize my tool. Please help

[Flolo]

Hey I want to create a processing tool.
I was able to export it with eclipse via “Ant” (sektchbook / tools)
it is also shown to me in the Finder (macOS), but it is not shown to me in Processing.
(I did it like this tutorial shows:
GitHub - processing/processing-tool-template: Processing Tool Template for Eclipse)
So I haven’t changed anything in the “tool code” …

I hope you can help me

[josephh]

Hi,

Did you follow all the steps mentioned in the GitHub tool template?

Otherwise is it possible for you to share the link of your project?

[Flolo]

Hey, I’ve actually done all the steps as far as I know.
I was not sure if I did it right with some.

I uploaded my tool attempt on github: https: //github.com/FloloGames/ProcessingTool.git

Thank you for your help

[josephh]

Hi again,

Looking at the existing MovieMaker tool in Processing, you can see that the folder structure is like this :

tools
└── MovieMaker
    ├── bin
    ├── build.xml
    ├── license.html
    ├── src
    └── tool

whereas yours is like this :

ProcessingTool
└── testTool
    ├── bin
    ├── libs
    ├── processing-tool-template-master
    └── src

So I’ve never done a tool myself but I even tried to put the testTool folder alone inside the tools folder and it doesn’t work.

Are you sure you are compiling and packaging it the right way?

[Flolo]

Yes you are right, I must have made a mistake …
Well I’ll delete the project and try again
I’ll write again, see you later

[quark]

In the build.properties file change these two lines to suit your tool

project.name=G4PTool

project.prettyName=G4P GUI Builder

ProcessingTool
└── G4PTool
    |── bin
    |── libs
         ^- G4PTool.jar 
    ...

Note that the parent folder and the name of the jar must be identical