Vfrdtyky

I have the following program in Proccessing and I try to find a way to read the values ​​of variables from a TXT file.

static final int ribbon_length = 255, H = 200; 



void setup() {

  size(ribbon_length, H); //Διαστάσεις παλέτας

}



void draw() {

  float p = 1;

  int up_y = 10;

  int widthh = 1;

  int height = 180;

  float a = pow (ribbon_length, 1-p);

  float colour = 0;

  for (int step = 0; step <= 255; step++) { 

      colour = a * pow (step, p);

      fill(colour,0,0); 

      rect(widthh*step, up_y, widthh, height);

      noStroke();

   }

}

The values tha I want to read from the txt is

  float p = 1; 

  int up_y = 10; 

  int widthh = 1;

  int height = 180;

I found BufferedReader command but I'm not sure if it is thaτ I want. I try ρθν an example..but it didn't work...

BufferedReader reader;

String line;

static final int ribbon_length = 255, H = 200;



void setup() {

  size(ribbon_length, H);

  reader = createReader("positions.txt");  

}

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Any ideas????

EDIT:
Thanks for your answers.
I try some changes after your commends. But It didn't show any color.

static final int ribbon_length = 255, H = 200; 



void setup() {

  size(ribbon_length, H);

}



void draw() {

  String lines = loadStrings("input.txt");

  float p = float(split(lines[0], "=")[1]);

  int up_y = int(split(lines[1], "=")[1]);

  int wide = int(split(lines[2], "=")[1]);

  int high = int(split(lines[3], "=")[1]);

  float a = pow (ribbon_length, 1-p);

  float colour = 0;

  for (int step = 0; step <= 255; step++) { 

      colour = a * pow (step, p);

      fill(colour,0,0); 

      rect(wide*step, up_y, wide, high);

      noStroke();

   }

}

You can have a plain txt where each of the lines is a variable, so you can use the BufferedReader like this.

BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("fileName.txt"));

Then you read each line with br.readLine() and then you finally assign the read line to the variable, transforming it to the necessary type. For example, if your line is an int you would have to do

int myInt = Integer.parseInt(br.readLine())

You can also have a properties file, in which every line has the format "key = value". You can try this webpage to load that properties file: http://www.mkyong.com/java/java-properties-file-examples/ (check part 2: Loading a properties file)

First: it's a bad idea to name variables width and height because these are special variables built into Processing. You should use something different, like wide and high, perhaps.

The simplest way to do it is to have a bare text file like this:

1

10

1

180

exactly as I have written it. You can then use the built-in functions of Processing to read in these values. These are easier alternatives to what xp500's answer provides, which is the correct answer for pure java.

void setup(){

  ....

  String lines = loadStrings("positions.txt");

  float p = float(lines[0]);

  int up_y = int(lines[1]);

  int wide = int(lines[2]);

  int high = int(lines[3]);

  ....

}

This will work, but is not very maintainable because there are lots of hard-coded values. What if there's an extra empty line at the top of the text file? The first line (lines[0]) won't have p's value, and the second line (lines[1]) will have p's values instead of up_y's! This is just something to keep in mind. If you end up having other things in your text file (such as variable names), you could use split() to get the number out of the string. Example:

text file:

p=1

up_y=10

processing code:

String lines = loadStrings("input.txt")

float p = float(split(lines[0], "=")[1]); // split on the "=" and take the second element

int up_y = int(split(lines[1], "=")[1]);

If you choose this approach, you might even check for the variable name in the line before assigning it, just in case the file is jumbled. Something like if(!lines[0].contains("p")) print("error!");