Default background color not gray

[ericcervin]

When I recreate examples from java Processing in sketching, I add (background 200) so the backgrounds match. Maybe that should be the default color for sketching?

[soegaard]

Hi Eric,

Processing has 200 has the default background and P5.js has "transparent" as the default. Although it would have been nice to have the same default as Processing, I am reluctant to change the default of Sketching.

It is however worth mentioning in the documentation of background that the default color differs from the default in Processing.

Do you think I should make a separate section with a list of known differences?

Have you noticed other default that differ from the Processing ones?

[ericcervin]

I'll work on my own list of differences and I'll share it as I sloooooooooowly work through my examples. Right now 2 things really stand out:

1. The default background color
2. Sketching can't draw outside of a "draw" function? Maybe that is a good approach but it is a difference.

[soegaard]

Hi,

I didn't know about 2.

I think this can be improved. Do you happen to know where in the Processing manual it is described, what happens when draw is missing?

/Jens Axel

[ericcervin]

i don't know where it is documented. In many of the most basic tutorials that I've worked through setup/draw are left out . This is an example: https://processing.org/examples/shapeprimitives.html

you'll see that it just draws the shapes. I've been using (no-loop) to recreate this in sketching .

I should make this its own issue?

[soegaard]

Yes. That would a good idea.