Hi,

I´m new to Processing and to Java. I was wondering if you could help me out.

Using the Twitter 4J Library I´ve managed to get the code to access my updates, but it only does this once while my sketch is running. What I need to happen is for it to automatically check for new updates. In other words, if I post to my twitter account, the processing sketch show update also and print it the new status.


The goal is to have a sketch that prints all the new updates to a twitter account.


The only way I´ve managed to do this is by creating a new object every few moments which seriously slows down the sketch:



void draw () {

 background(255);    
 fill(0);
 textFont(theFont);

 
 y = y - 1;










       //this code is used to access the status. There is a problem with it as it creates an object every time it runs.



        if (y == -51) {
 
             twitter = new Twitter(username,password);
             //java.util.List statuses = twitter.getUserTimeline();
                       
                                 try{statuses = twitter.getUserTimeline(); }

                                 catch( TwitterException e) {println(e.getStatusCode());}
 
                                 Status status = (Status)statuses.get(0);
                                 mess = (status.getUser().getName() + ":  " + status.getText() + " : "  + status.getCreatedAt());
 
 
                                y = 0;
 
                        }

// this checks to see if the new update is the same as the old one.

           if  (mess.equals(message[0]))        { //println("equal");
         moveDown = false; }

 
                     else{
   
                             println("new post!");
                             message[w] = mess;
                             w = w+1;
                             if (w == 11){w = 0; }
                             moveDown = true;
                           
                          }
 
 


Any help?

Thanks so much for the info! I´m going to look into how to do that ('cause I´m not exactly sure).

In the meantime, if anyone feels like posting some sample code of how one would do a multithread as described above, that would be fantastic.