processing.app
Class Platform

java.lang.Object
  processing.app.Platform

Direct Known Subclasses:

Platform, Platform, Platform

public class Platform
extends java.lang.Object

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.)

Platform

public Platform()

setLookAndFeel

public void setLookAndFeel()
                    throws java.lang.Exception

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.

Throws:

java.lang.Exception - Just like I said.

init

public void init(Base base)

getSettingsFolder

public java.io.File getSettingsFolder()
                               throws java.lang.Exception

Throws:

java.lang.Exception

getDefaultSketchbookFolder

public java.io.File getDefaultSketchbookFolder()
                                        throws java.lang.Exception

Returns:

null if not overridden, which will cause a prompt to show instead.

Throws:

java.lang.Exception

openURL

public void openURL(java.lang.String url)
             throws java.lang.Exception

Throws:

java.lang.Exception

openFolderAvailable

public boolean openFolderAvailable()

openFolder

public void openFolder(java.io.File file)
                throws java.lang.Exception

Throws:

java.lang.Exception