dear all,

I am sure this is straightforward and simple!

I am trying to load text from a URL using the loadStrings command - so far so straightforward. The code below works perfectly fine locally but once uploaded no text is being loaded in. I can pull the text in from a .txt. file but need to pull it from a URL.

Any thoughts? (I have loaded the text both this way and through a buffer but no luck!)

thanks, Aidan

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// Pull data from a URL and make into a string
//
void setup()
{
 size(200, 200);  // Size should be the first statement
 stroke(255);     // Set line drawing color to white
 background(80); // bkgd to grey
 noLoop();
 PFont AndaleMono;
 AndaleMono = loadFont("AndaleMono-12.vlw");
 textFont(AndaleMono, 12);
}
//
void draw()
{
textAidan();
}
//
void textAidan()
{
 String lines[] = loadStrings("http://www.yahoo.com"); // from web
 String onelongstring = ""; //set variable to empty
 for (int i = 0; i < lines.length; i++) { // count number of lines
 onelongstring = onelongstring + lines[i] + " "; // fill variable with lines
}
//
println(onelongstring);
text(onelongstring, 10, 10, 180, 180 );
}
//
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thanks for the answer fjen,

I was thinking that might be the answer and had just started to use a php solution.

Another query though (if I may), I have a PHP script working to pull the info, it is:
- working fine locally in Processing;
- working fine online;
- not working when I export it, take the applet and run it locally (the index.html file that pulls in the java file does not show the pulled data).

Any thoughts

thanks,
Aidan

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fjen wrote on Aug 16^th, 2007, 7:39am:

Yes running locally I mean taking the index.html file that is created and opening it in a browser. This just brings up the html file with processing embedded in it but does not pull the info from the php file. But when I am in processing and I hit play it is able to pull from the php file.

In both scenarios the php file is uploaded to the server.

So in both instances the processing part of the files are local but one works and the other doesn't. In the big picture it is not that big of a deal as it works when uploaded, but I always like to know why. (Am guessing that it has to do with the security measures being more tight in the applet than when running through processing)

thanks,
Aidan

fjen wrote on Aug 16^th, 2007, 5:19pm:

Makes sense (for now).

Thanks Fjen and John.

Aidna