Getting Started. Illustration by George Brower.

The Candy SVG Import library is used for loading SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) files into Processing. This library was specifically tested under SVG files created from Adobe Illustrator. For now, we can't guarantee that it'll work for SVG's created from anything else.

An SVG created under Illustrator must be created in one of two ways: - File > Save for Web (or control-alt-shift-s on a PC). Under settings, make sure the CSS properties is set to "Presentation Attributes" - With Illustrator CS2, it is also possible to use "Save As" with "SVG" as the file setting, but the CSS properties set to "Presentation Attributes" Saving it any other way will most likely break Candy.

For more information, visit: http://www.processing.org/reference/libraries/candy/

import processing.candy.*;
import processing.xml.*;

SVG bot;

void setup(){
  size(200, 200);
  smooth();
  // The file "bot1.svg" must be in the data folder
  // of the current sketch to load successfully
  bot = new SVG(this, "bot1.svg");
} 

void draw(){
  background(102);
  bot.draw(10, 10, 100, 100);  // Draw at coordinate [10, 10] at size 100 x 100
  bot.draw(70, 60);            // Draw at coordinate [70, 60] at the default size
}