hello all i'm still trying to understand how display lines of text from an array. basically im reading in data from a mysql database and then trying to display it on screen line by line but so far it all comes out on one line.

I eventually want to start playing with the text but need to work out how to get it to appear properly first

code as follows

(yes im a noob)

import de.bezier.mysql.*;
PFont f;

// created 2005-05-10 by fjenett
// updated 2005-11-16 by fjenett


MySQL msql;


void setup()
{
   size( 400, 400 );

   f = createFont("Arial",20,true);


   // this example assumes that you are running the
   // mysql server locally (on "localhost").
   //
   // replace --username--, --password-- with your mysql-account.
   //
   String user     = "*****";
   String pass     = "**********";

   // name of the database to use
   //
   String database = "******";

   // name of the table that will be created
   //
   String table    = "inbound";

   // connect to database of server "localhost"
   //
   msql = new MySQL( "*************", database, user, pass, this );
   
   if ( msql.connect() )
   {  
     
       msql.query( "SELECT * FROM " + table );
       
       while (msql.next())
       {
         
         String s = msql.getString("message");
           int n = msql.getInt("id");
           println(s + "   " + n);
           fill(0);
           textFont(f);
           textAlign(CENTER);
           text(s,10,100);
         
         
           
       }
       
       // need to find out how many rows there are in table?
       //
       msql.query( "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM " + table );
       msql.next();
       println( "number of rows: " + msql.getInt(1) );
       
       
   }
   else
   {
       // connection failed !
   }
}

void draw()
{
 
}

how would i put that together ?

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you mean that way?

I think you need to take each character of each string and position it "by hand" (or rather, calculation).