Method createInput

core/src/processing/core/PApplet.java:6323–6342

This is a function for advanced programmers to open a Java InputStream. It's useful if you want to use the facilities provided by PApplet to easily open files from the data folder or from a URL, but want an InputStream object so that you can use other parts of Java to take more control of how the st

(String filename)

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  @SuppressWarnings("JavadocLinkAsPlainText")
  public InputStream createInput(String filename) {
    InputStream input = createInputRaw(filename);
    if (input != null) {
      // if it's gzip-encoded, automatically decode
      final String lower = filename.toLowerCase();
      if (lower.endsWith(".gz") || lower.endsWith(".svgz")) {
        try {
          // buffered has to go *around* the GZ, otherwise 25x slower
          return new BufferedInputStream(new GZIPInputStream(input));

        } catch (IOException e) {
          printStackTrace(e);
        }
      } else {
        return new BufferedInputStream(input);
      }
    }
    return null;
  }


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