EarthquakeCityMap | Practical Improvement to the EarthquakeCityMap from Coursera

As part of the coursera UCSD Java class, we are working with the Processing and Unfolding Maps libraries.

The course provides you with starter code, which I am trying to expand. But I ran into a problem.

On my work computer, where I do most of my studying, I have a really nice app started. I decided to take it home to my wife to show her, by cloning my github repo to my home laptop.

None of the librar/JAR files were included, so I downloaded them directly from Processing and Unfolding's download pages. The result was a NIGHTMARE. Error after error after error. I assume coursera/UCSD used old versions of the libraries, and the new versions aren't backwards compatible. Seems crappy, but whatever.

Next, I downloaded all the JAR files from the coursera sight. The results are a bit better, but things are still pretty wacky. Namely, when I create an UnfoldingMap() object, the parameters for location within the window as well as size do absolutely nothing.

1.) I use Processing size() method to size up or down the containing window, it scales the map object up or down. It totally ignores the size and location arguments of UnfoldingMap().

2.) The map object is always pushed to the lower left hand corner of the window, no matter it's arguments for position.

3.) The gray background() I have chosen does show around the map, but the background itself is then surrounded by a big black field, that also scales with the size() parameters.

Here is some code: