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milneandfletch YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 14	Drawing text from Arduino Serial Output Nov 3rd, 2009, 5:01am   Hi, I really cant work out whats not working! I can get Processing to read in the serial data - using a example sketch. What i want to do next is update some next inside the draw window. But i keep on getting font needs to be in data folder, but i cant find the data folder! Any suggestions? thanks Peter

Cedric YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 1838	Re: Drawing text from Arduino Serial Output Reply #1 - Nov 3rd, 2009, 6:39am   Use the tool menue to create the font file . A data folder is then created in your sketch folder containing the font file. If you just copied the loadfont part from an example. change it to the font you just created.
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milneandfletch YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 14	Re: Drawing text from Arduino Serial Output Reply #2 - Nov 9th, 2009, 6:18am   Thanks for the reply! That's been bothering me for days. I can use the text command to print a value, but everytime it updates to a new value it just overwrites the old one so i'm left with a mess. Any suggestions on how i get it to cleanly refresh every time new data is read in?? Thanks Pete

Cedric YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 1838	Re: Drawing text from Arduino Serial Output Reply #3 - Nov 9th, 2009, 8:18am   sure, call background(150);
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