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Hi Jannik,

I found your thread on the Arduino forum but it was closed. This was the next best thing to be able to talk to you!

Thank you for your Arduino IDE tool examples. They have been very helpful for me to understand what the hell is going on! I am a pretty novice Java programmer.

I wonder if you could shed some light on something I am trying to do. I want to have a webserver running as an IDE tool with one UI window that you can leave open all the time.

Changing window focus to another sketch would change some parameters in the web server (root directory, listen port etc).

So far I have a very janky solution. The init(Editor) method of the tool plugin uses a boolean set by processing.app.PreferencesData so it will only run the UI/webserver setup once. In the UI class setup method, a listening socket is set up and the port number returned to be stored by preferencesData. Subsequent executions of init(Editor) will skip calling the UI/webserver setup because of the boolean set, but pull the port number out of preferencesData so they can all talk to the same instance of the UI over the socket.

This works but seems very complicated. I would like to have my UI and webserver in other classes and just create one instance of them. I've tried using the UI/webserver classes statically and using singleton pattern, but the IDE always seems to ignore it all and I get another instance for every sketch window.

Do you have any clues as to how to prevent this? I have spent quite a while scrolling through the processing/arduino IDE source but to be honest I'm not really sure what I'm looking at most of the time!