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Class Platform</H2>
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java.lang.Object
<IMG SRC="../../resources/inherit.gif" ALT="extended by "><B>processing.app.Platform</B>
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<DT><B>Direct Known Subclasses:</B> <DD><A HREF="../../processing/app/linux/Platform.html" title="class in processing.app.linux">Platform</A>, <A HREF="../../processing/app/macosx/Platform.html" title="class in processing.app.macosx">Platform</A>, <A HREF="../../processing/app/windows/Platform.html" title="class in processing.app.windows">Platform</A></DD>
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<DT><PRE>public class <B>Platform</B><DT>extends java.lang.Object</DL>
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Used by Base for platform-specific tweaking, for instance finding the
sketchbook location using the Windows registry, or OS X event handling.
The methods in this implementation are used by default, and can be
overridden by a subclass, if loaded by Base.main().
These methods throw vanilla-flavored Exceptions, so that error handling
occurs inside Base.
There is currently no mechanism for adding new platforms, as the setup is
not automated. We could use getProperty("os.arch") perhaps, but that's
debatable (could be upper/lowercase, have spaces, etc.. basically we don't
know if name is proper Java package syntax.)
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<TD><CODE><B><A HREF="../../processing/app/Platform.html#Platform()">Platform</A></B>()</CODE>
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<CODE> java.io.File</CODE></FONT></TD>
<TD><CODE><B><A HREF="../../processing/app/Platform.html#getDefaultSketchbookFolder()">getDefaultSketchbookFolder</A></B>()</CODE>
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<CODE> java.io.File</CODE></FONT></TD>
<TD><CODE><B><A HREF="../../processing/app/Platform.html#getSettingsFolder()">getSettingsFolder</A></B>()</CODE>
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<CODE> void</CODE></FONT></TD>
<TD><CODE><B><A HREF="../../processing/app/Platform.html#init(processing.app.Base)">init</A></B>(<A HREF="../../processing/app/Base.html" title="class in processing.app">Base</A> base)</CODE>
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<CODE> void</CODE></FONT></TD>
<TD><CODE><B><A HREF="../../processing/app/Platform.html#openFolder(java.io.File)">openFolder</A></B>(java.io.File file)</CODE>
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<CODE> boolean</CODE></FONT></TD>
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<CODE> void</CODE></FONT></TD>
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<CODE> void</CODE></FONT></TD>
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Set the default L & F.</TD>
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Platform</H3>
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public <B>Platform</B>()</PRE>
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setLookAndFeel</H3>
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<DD>Set the default L & F. While I enjoy the bounty of the sixteen possible
exception types that this UIManager method might throw, I feel that in
just this one particular case, I'm being spoiled by those engineers
at Sun, those Masters of the Abstractionverse. It leaves me feeling sad
and overweight. So instead, I'll pretend that I'm not offered eleven dozen
ways to report to the user exactly what went wrong, and I'll bundle them
all into a single catch-all "Exception". Because in the end, all I really
care about is whether things worked or not. And even then, I don't care.
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<DD><CODE>java.lang.Exception</CODE> - Just like I said.</DL>
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init</H3>
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public void <B>init</B>(<A HREF="../../processing/app/Base.html" title="class in processing.app">Base</A> base)</PRE>
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getSettingsFolder</H3>
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public java.io.File <B>getSettingsFolder</B>()
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getDefaultSketchbookFolder</H3>
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public java.io.File <B>getDefaultSketchbookFolder</B>()
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<DT><B>Returns:</B><DD>null if not overridden, which will cause a prompt to show instead.
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openURL</H3>
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public void <B>openURL</B>(java.lang.String url)
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openFolderAvailable</H3>
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public boolean <B>openFolderAvailable</B>()</PRE>
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openFolder</H3>
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public void <B>openFolder</B>(java.io.File file)
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