From c9888a62b60b05b29c7f5242993c637cf0722e8f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Fry <ben@fathom.info>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2022 00:25:23 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] add a hack so that loadImage() works in settings() (fixes
 #299)

---
 core/src/processing/core/PApplet.java | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/core/src/processing/core/PApplet.java b/core/src/processing/core/PApplet.java
index 636ec0ee5..19c18fbc6 100644
--- a/core/src/processing/core/PApplet.java
+++ b/core/src/processing/core/PApplet.java
@@ -5248,6 +5248,11 @@ public class PApplet implements PConstants {
       g.awaitAsyncSaveCompletion(filename);
     }
 
+    // Hack so that calling loadImage() in settings() will work
+    // https://github.com/processing/processing4/issues/299
+    if (surface == null) {
+      return ShimAWT.loadImage(this, filename, extension);
+    }
     return surface.loadImage(filename, extension);
   }