hello
me also got some problems with the serial communication between ardunio and processing.
so i try to send some ints down to the arduino.
basically only 5 ints, 0 or 1.

ok, here is my sending function in processing:

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void communicator(){
 if(lineCounter == 5){
   lineCounter = 0;
 }
 for(int i = 0; i < anzahlVentile; i++){
   //println("i=" + i + ", lineCounter="+lineCounter);
   myPort.write(zeilenWeise[lineCounter][i]);
   println("gesendet wird: "+ zeilenWeise[lineCounter][i]);    
 }
}

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as you see, with the println("gesendet wird:...") i check what ints will be sent. and i see, that this are the correct ones. they are stored in a 2d array.


ok. then my reading functino in arduino:

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void serialReader(){

 Serial.println(Serial.available());
 while (Serial.available() < 5) {
   delay(10);
 }
     pins[0] = Serial.read();
     pins[1] = Serial.read();
     pins[2] = Serial.read();
     pins[3] = Serial.read();
     pins[4] = Serial.read();
   }

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so, it should wait, until the 5 bytes have arrived, and then go for it an put it in a new array called pins.


ok, whats happening, is, that some data will be arriving. but not in the correct order and not the right ones i think.





anyone got a possible solution for my problem?

setup:
mac osx 10.5.2 intel
processing 135
arduino 10
arudino diecimilla


thank you
n