How to animate a window with Processing?

Question

I am using Processing to learn programming and wondered if there is a way to make an OS window grow, shrink, make it transparent or give it round edges. As far as I know Processing uses Java's Frame class and not the JFrame class, but I just can't figure out how to do this.

Thanks for your help.

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Answer 1

For resizing the window simply use the following command in your draw() method:

frame.setSize(x,y);

Make sure you define the frame as resizable in your setup() method:

frame.setResizable(true);

Using plain vanilla processing you can't change other window attribute as they are part of the frame the framework draws for you. I suppose if you hack processing a bit in a regular IDE, such as eclipse, you could somehow override this behavior and draw a window/frame of your own.