Propane

Environment

Java

Unlike vanilla processing, we do not distribute a java environment with our projects. It is quite possible that Oracle jdk8 will work best with propane 2.9.1 and below, and Oracle jdk12 will work best with propane-3.4.0+ but they have not been tested. It seem that not all OpenJDK distributions are equal, if you are lucky the one installed on your system will work for you (jdk8 for propane-2.9.1 and jdk11+ for propane-3.4.0). If you have linker problems with opengl sketches we recommend you use AdoptOpenJDK binaries.

JRuby

With propane you need to install jruby on your system (you do not need rvm or rbenv to do this since you call the jruby binary directly).

Understanding A propane Sketch

How you might write a propane sketch, including the shebang makes it easier to run the sketch using script in the atom editor, but assumes you have jruby available at /usr/bin/jruby or more likely via symbolic link (yet another reason not to use rvm or rbenv since they futz with your environment).

my_sketch.rb

#!/usr/bin/env jruby
# frozen_string_literal: false
require 'propane'

class MyApp < Propane::App
  # load_library :my_library # propane method
  # include_package 'org.package' # JRuby method
  def settings
    size 200, 200 # size 'mode' or fullscreen 'mode' goes here
    # pixel_density(2) # only for HiDpi screens
    # see https://processing.org/reference/pixelDensity_.html
    # smooth # useless unless you enter a figure 2, 3, 4 or 8
    # for default renderer default is 3 for P2D and P3D it is 2
    # see https://processing.org/reference/smooth_.html
  end

  def setup
    sketch_title 'Regular Propane Sketch' # propane method
  end

  def draw
    # draw loop
  end
end

MyApp.new

Structure

You will see that under the hood the structure is like a jruby_art (and ruby-processing) wrapped bare sketch (the only real difference is there’s not the option of starting a sketch with MRI ruby).

# frozen_string_literal: false
require 'propane'
module Propane
  # include_package 'org.package' # JRuby method
  class MyApp < App # App is a subclass of processing.core.PApplet

    # load_library :my_library # propane method

    def settings
      size 200, 200 # size 'mode' go here

    end

    def setup
      sketch_title 'Bare Sketch' # propane method
    end

    def draw
      # draw loop
    end    
  end  
end

# NB: If you use this explicit form need to use Propane::MyApp.new to run sketch

See more at propane github pages