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October 30, 2024, 10:31pm
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Never heard of that before
Found this
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I should have been more precise, this is only about sharing this easter egg and not about me having any issues with it.
Also, I just restarted Processing and then everything was fine.
I’m testing out ChatGPT Plus and putting its code writing through the wringer, rapidly copy/pasting generated code iterations into a new Processing sketch for quick evaluation and comparison to previous code. (If I find a solid or intriguing sketch foundation, I then switch to Sublime for the heavy lifting). I quickly burned through the auto-naming limit and bumped into that nerdy easter egg.
For reference, this was discussed here:
opened 06:50PM - 24 Oct 22 UTC
closed 01:54PM - 24 Nov 22 UTC
A student of mine struggeled with Processing 4 today, and ran into the following… behaviour. I was able to reproduce it:
## Steps to Reproduce
* start Processing, close it, re-start it again; repeat several times
or,
* start Processing, and create a number[^1] of new sketches
[^1]: this number might be 26, as the last sketch I was able to create ended with `z`.
Then, at some point, the following dialog pops up:
When trying to start Processing again, one gets this:
That's it. One can **no longer start** Processing for an unknown period of time.
What is that, some kind of an Easter egg?! I find this rather inappropriate. Today, it only led to even more frustration for my students who are just starting to learn Python and Processing.
## Expected Behavior
Please don't tell me Processing cannot "auto name" more than 26 sketches per day. Keep the funny messages, if you like, but allow Processing to start again. Thanks.
## Environment
* Processing version: 4.0.1
* Operating System and OS version: Windows 10
Here’s how you may fix this on Windows 10:
Go to C:\Users[User name]\AppData\Local\Temp\processing
Move the anonymous sketches (named like sketch_000000a to sketch_000000z) to another folder.
Start Processing again. It should open normally.
You may also manually create an empty .pde file outside of the Processing IDE and double click it.
The best way to avoid reaching the maximum auto-naming limit is to save your sketches.
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