Here is a Java pet project I’ve been working on, partly out of an interest in procedural graphics but mainly just for some good old Java practice and to make the train journeys go a bit faster:
Theres still a number of glaring bugs in the UI code, which I’ll be fixing, but its ready for an idle play. Random feature requests welcome!
The Applet will prompt you to confirm a security certificate since it allows saving of images and vector files to your local hard drive.
A common request over on AEnhancers.com is how to read data into Adobe Scripts from Excel spreadsheets. For a long time there has been no satisfactory answer; the standard advice being to export and read-in via a delimited text file (CSV). In an attempt to improve this situation, I have created a tool, part Adobe Script, part Java, to enable communication between user scripts and Excel.
This tool is functional but in its early revisions so I encourage you to try it out and welcome any suggestions or bug reports you may have. Note that the documentation on the project page is also included in the download for ease of reading.
I often face the situation where a numbered sequence of files is being generated or delivered, either from a design team or computer renderfarm. Where they are not arriving in order, identifying which files are missing can be a lengthy task and difficult to automate. So, I developed a small GUI based program to do it. ‘GapFinder’ analyses a folder of numbered files and lists apparent ommissions in an easy to read format.
‘GapFinder’ takes the form of an executable JAR file and is cross-platform. Get it here:
GapFinder.jar (<10kb)