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jakeman4
Basic user input program needed
Nov 24th, 2007, 5:47am  
Although this has to do with Arduino, I still need some help with user input. I can't seem to learn from the examples. I don't want shapes or things to dim or light up based on keystrokes. I simply want to take a value from the user and use the write() function to send it to my Arduino board.

It would be good if I could just have a text box that says "Enter a voltage: " , then the user inputs a number (preferably a float/decimal) then hits "Enter". Then store this user input in a variable. Then I can do whatever I want with it. Thanks a lot for any help.
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steven
Re: Basic user input program needed
Reply #1 - Nov 24th, 2007, 7:50pm  
Are you asking how to input values in Processing and then sending them to Arduino? If so, then this post is relevant!

If you want input boxes, I recommend using some UI libraries.
http://processing.org/reference/libraries/index.html

Recently I've tested them all.
All of them do a pretty good job.

ControlP5: user can enter data and then hit Enter to submit the values

Interfascia: Only Library to work under OPENGL

Spring GUI: Awesome library, supports the ctr+V (paste) shortcut, also works under P3D, Has all the HTML form elements

MyGui: Works great but needs more code to customize it. If you need examples on how to use these, I found this site
http://www.mkv25.net/applets/

My favorite is SpringUI, very easy to understand and works like a charm... but doesn't work in OPENGL

Hope this helps
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