Hello,

My serial input is a value between 0-1023, being refreshed every 500ms.
I'm basically attempting to replace the "mouseY" variable in the "Hue" example with serial input, divided by 5 to get it within an acceptable range. But I can't figure out how to get the function to call and store the serial value more than once. Maybe this isn't happening at all!

Any suggestions? I understand that the draw() should loop, so why doesn't the ser = myPort.read() continue to get reset to the current value?


Code:

void draw() {
{
  }
  int j = 0;
  for (int i=0; i<=(width-barWidth); i+=barWidth) {  
    if ((mouseX > i) && (mouseX < i+barWidth)) {
      ser = myPort.read();
        hue[j] = ser/5;
      //hue[j] = mouseY;    
    }
    fill(hue[j], height/1.2, height/1.2);
    rect(i, 0, barWidth, height);  
    j++;
   loop();
  }