Hey I just ran into a situation where this function would be really useful
so I made it a little bit more general so you can use any number instead of
just the frameCount. Is this the right place to post changes like this?

ryan

/**
* Check a string for #### signs to see if the frame number should be
* inserted. Used for functions like saveFrame() and beginRecord() to
* replace the # marks with the frame number. If only one # is used,
* it will be ignored, under the assumption that it's probably not
* intended to be the frame number.
*/
public String insertFrame(String what) {
return insertFrame(what, frameCount);
}

public String insertFrame(String what, int frameNum) {
int first = what.indexOf('#');
int last = what.lastIndexOf('#');

if ((first != -1) && (last - first > 0)) {
String prefix = what.substring(0, first);
int count = last - first + 1;
String suffix = what.substring(last + 1);
return prefix + nf(frameNum, count) + suffix;
}
return what; // no change
}

prolly best to post on processinghacks.