javaintellij-ideaprocessingprocessing-ide

Variable type 'color' doesn't work when using processing 3.5.3 in intellij

I am just starting to learn image processing and I am using Processing 3.5.3. As the IDE in Processing was not too good with auto-completion, I decided to write the code in my Intellij with the rest of my project.

I am following a tutorial online and I am unable to use the variable type color (e.g. color c = frog.get(x,y); )

When I use the same code in Processing IDE it works perfectly fine, but Intellij complains "Cannot resolve symbol". I am not sure why is that and I couldn't find anything online.

Any ideas?

Solution

  • The color type is part of the magic that the Processing Editor gives you. You can't use it in other editors.

    Behind the scenes, the color type is actually an int value. So anywhere you see a line like this:

    color c = color(32, 64, 128);

    You can use an int instead:

    int c = color(32, 64, 128);