Saving Current Frame on Mouse Click

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Hello @eoinfen,

The draw() canvas updates at the end of draw().
You are seeing the last frame for 5 seconds and are actually saving the current frame (in progress…) when you are pressing the right mouse button.

Example:

Thread newThread;

void setup()
  {
  size(200, 200);
  textSize(48);
  textAlign(CENTER, CENTER);
  text(frameCount, width/2, height/2-20);
  frameRate(1/5.0);
  thread("requestData");
  }

void draw()
  {  
  background(0);
  text(frameCount, width/2, height/2-20);
  thread("requestData");
  }

void mousePressed()
  {
  if (mouseButton == RIGHT) 
    {
    save(frameCount + ".PNG");
    println("mousePressed frameCount: ", frameCount);
    }
  }
  
void requestData() 
  {
  println("frameCount: ", frameCount);
  }

Reference:
thread() / Reference / Processing.org
thread() runs independently of the main animation loop and is showing the actual frameCount.

:)

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