hi
i'm totally new here and i hope that i'm posting this question in the right place. i'm sure it's a very simple answer. i just can't seem to find the right search phrase to help myself. my question is why does this not work?

int maxPho1 = int(gugs[2]);
int maxPho2 = int(gugs[6]);
etc...
String name1 = gugs[0];
etc...
String home1 = gugs[2];
etc
gugs refers to the lines of a text doc

for(int i = 1; i < 16; i++){
 float newNum = map(maxPho[i],maxPhotos,minPhotos,newRectMax,newRectMin);
 rect(rectXStartPos,10*i,newNum,rectYsize);
 println(test);
text(name[i],leftDent,15);
text(home[i],leftDent,25);
}

there are various variables already defined correctly like maxPho1, maxPho2 etc, name1, name2 etc which are not causing the problem.
what i'm trying to do is get the for loop to loop through maxPho[i], name[i] etc and replace the i with a number so i was hoping to get maxPho1, maxPho2 etc. how is this done i processing?
any help is greatly appreciated.
all the best

hi quark
thank you for your reply. your suggestion certainly helped and my script is working
many thanks
ps if you are interested here's where i used the correct code www.lyndondaniels.com/processing/

Rapatsk1, we probably need more detail on your object hierarchy and relations (perhaps show some simplified classes illustrating it), but if these are int arrays, you certainly cannot do that...
But there is probably another solution.

This is a simplified view on the recursive class. How would I handle the focus of such object?

Code:

public class Element {

  float x, y, z;
  float orbitradius, sze; // radius determines the distance of children, sze is size of object
  String txt; // content

  Element[] heritage;
  Element[] children;

  boolean mouseover = false;
  boolean is_selected = false;
  boolean is_clicked = false;

  Element(float psize, float radius, String txt) {

    this.txt = txt;

    this.sze = psize;
    this.orbitradius = radius;

    children = new Element[0];

  }

  Element(int id, Element parent, String txt) { // constructor for children

    this.txt = txt;

    this.sze = parent.sze/2;
    this.orbitradius = parent.orbitradius/4;

    children = new Element[0];

  }

  void updatePositions(float newx, float newy, float newz) {

    x = newx;
    y = newy;
    z = newz;

    // calculating position of children
    for(int i = 0; i < children.length; i++) {
	Point p = returnPosition(i, children.length, orbitradius);
	children[i].updatePositions(p.x, p.y, p.z);
    }

  }

  void updateSelection(boolean p_selected) {

    if(p_selected) {
	is_selected = true;
    }

    for(int i = 0; i < children.length; i++) {
	children[i].updateSelection(is_selected);
    }
    
    if(!mousedragged) {

	if(mouseover) {

	  if(mousePressed) {
	    is_clicked = true;
	    is_selected = true;

	    //set global selection reference here?
	  }
	  
	} 
	else {
	  // mouseover is false
	}

    }

  }

  void draw() {

    pushMatrix();
    translate(x, y, z);
    
    for(int i = 0; i < children.length; i++) {

	// draw lines to children
	stroke(scolor);
	line(0,0,0, children[i].x, children[i].y, children[i].z);

	// recursive draw
	children[i].draw();

    }

    // rectangle
    stroke(scolor);
    rect(-sze/2.0, -sze/2.0, sze, sze);
    
    // using translated matrix to determine mouseover
    mouseover = isMouseover(mouseX, mouseY);

    popMatrix();

  }
}