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orangeid YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 8	Sending strings via Serial Oct 17th, 2008, 12:02am   Hi I was wondering if some can help me I am trying to send string to a arduino some thing like R1034,G3456,B1920 i am guessing i have to send it one character/number at time but how can i break it this string down ? Or is there a simpler way of doing it ? Cheers J

Daniel Shiffman Full Member Offline Posts: 186	Re: Sending strings via Serial Reply #1 - Oct 17th, 2008, 1:25pm   Processing's write() function allows you to pass in a String to send: http://processing.org/reference/libraries/serial/Serial_write_.html
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orangeid YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 8	Re: Sending strings via Serial Reply #2 - Oct 27th, 2008, 7:07pm   Thanks shiffman I was sure that i tried that must be going mad Cheers J