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notes on library and tool locations
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@@ -44,19 +44,15 @@ almost always be skilled enough to use another IDE like Eclipse
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Where to put Libraries
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Core libraries live inside the "libraries" folder of the Processing
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distribution, however users should install "contributed" libraries
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in their sketchbook folder, which will prevent them from having to
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move their libraries with new Processing releases.
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Starting with release 0149, user libraries should live in a
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subfolder named "libraries" inside the sketchbook folder.
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distribution. Starting with release 0149, user-installed libraries
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must live in a folder named "libraries" inside the sketchbook folder.
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If a library works only with a particular release of Processing,
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then it may make sense for the user to put things into the
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Processing libraries folder, however we'd like to keep users
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out of there as much as possible. In fact, it may not be visible
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in future releases of Processing (for instance, on Mac OS X it
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may live inside a .app bundle).
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already lives inside the .app bundle).
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@@ -52,15 +52,13 @@ Where to put Tools
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Core tools live inside the "tools" subfolder of the Processing distribution,
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however users should install "contributed" tools in their sketchbook folder,
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which will prevent them from having to move the tools with new Processing
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releases. Starting with release 0149, tools should be placed in a folder
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named "tools" inside the sketchbook folder.
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inside a subfolder named "tools".
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If a tool works only with a particular release of Processing, then it may make
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sense for the user to put things into the Processing tools folder, however we'd
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like to keep users out of there as much as possible. In fact, it may not be
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visible in future releases of Processing (for instance, on Mac OS X it may live
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inside a .app bundle).
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visible in future releases of Processing (for instance, on Mac OS X, the tools
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folder is hidden inside the .app bundle).
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Tools should be laid out similar to libraries, though the structure is a little
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more flexible. The tool folder should be the name of the main class (without
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