Add contributed tools by selecting the menu item Tools → Add Tool... This will open the Contribution Manager, where you can browse for ##tool.name##, or any other tool you want to install.
Not all available tools have been converted to show up in this menu. If a tool isn't there, it will need to be installed manually by following the instructions below.
Contributed tools may be downloaded separately and manually placed within the tools folder of your Processing sketchbook. To find (and change) the Processing sketchbook location on your computer, open the Preferences window from the Processing application (PDE) and look for the "Sketchbook location" item at the top.
By default the following locations are used for your sketchbook folder:
- For Mac users, the sketchbook folder is located inside
~/Documents/Processing - For Windows users, the sketchbook folder is located inside
My Documents/Processing
Download ##tool.name## from ##tool.url##
Unzip and copy the contributed tool's folder into the tools folder in the Processing sketchbook. You will need to create this tools folder if it does not exist.
The folder structure for tool ##tool.name## should be as follows:
Processing
tools
##tool.name##
examples
tool
##tool.name##.jar
reference
src
Some folders like examples or src might be missing. After tool ##tool.name## has been successfully installed, restart the Processing application.
If you're having trouble, try contacting the author ##author.name##.