Hi,

I am trying to create an installation that saves up tweets on a particular topic and stores them in a text file. I have this working using coll in Max msp to save the files from Processing. When a bucket is poured(via arduino) I would like the tweets to fall down the screen like rain. I can store and update the txt file fine, but the problems I am having is to retrieve the tweets one by one and get them to fall down the screen. Also I would like the tweets to be deleted from the text file after they have fallen to the bottom of the screen.

 Any help would be very much appreciated thankyou!

1. import processing.pdf.*;
   import java.util.Date;
   import maxlink.*;
   MaxLink link = new MaxLink(this, "twits");
   MaxLink linkin = new MaxLink(this, "twoots");
   static String OAuthConsumerKey    = "mykey";
   static String OAuthConsumerSecret = "secret";
   static String AccessToken         = "at";
   static String AccessTokenSecret   = "dd";
   String myTimeline;
   java.util.List statuses = null;
   User[] friends;
   TwitterFactory twitterFactory;
   Twitter twitter;
   RequestToken requestToken;
   String[] theSearchTweets = new String[11];
   String  myQueryWord = "#water";
   long    previousIdOfTweetContainingQuery = 0;
   public ArrayList tweets;
   public String msg; //the tweets
   public int a; // from max msp;
   public int y = 0; // to move words down page
   public int x = 0; //
   public float speed; // to create random speeds
   
   private static AccessToken loadAccessToken() {
     return new AccessToken(AccessToken, AccessTokenSecret); // get my oauth details
   }
   
   
   void setup() {
     size(600, 600);
     frameRate(60);
     background(0);
   
     linkin.declareInlet("a"); //connection to Max msp
   
     ConfigurationBuilder cb = new ConfigurationBuilder();
     cb.setOAuthConsumerKey(OAuthConsumerKey);
     cb.setOAuthConsumerSecret( OAuthConsumerSecret );
     cb.setOAuthAccessToken( AccessToken);
     cb.setOAuthAccessTokenSecret( AccessTokenSecret );
     twitterFactory = new TwitterFactory(cb.build());
     twitter = twitterFactory.getInstance();
     println("connected");
   }
   
   
   void draw() {
     getSearch();  // retrieve tweets to max and sore them in "tweets.txt"
   
     y =y +7;  // increase y position of tweets
     String[] lines = loadStrings("tweeters.txt"); //This doesn't work at all really but is the kind of thing I want to do.
     for (int i = 0; i < lines.length; i++) {
       text(lines[i], random(600), y, 50, 50);
     }
   }
   
   void getSearch() {
   
     try {
       println ("Searching.... Current time = " + hour() + ":" + minute() + ":" + second());
       Query query = new Query(myQueryWord);
   
       query.count(50); // how many results to fetch
   
       QueryResult result = twitter.search(query);
   
       ArrayList tweetsContainingQuery = (ArrayList) result.getTweets();
       if (tweetsContainingQuery.size() > 0) {
         Status mostRecentTweetContainingQuery = (Status) tweetsContainingQuery.get(0);
         long mostRecentTweetContainingQueryId = mostRecentTweetContainingQuery.getId();
   
         if (previousIdOfTweetContainingQuery == 0) {
           previousIdOfTweetContainingQuery = mostRecentTweetContainingQueryId;
         }
         if (mostRecentTweetContainingQueryId != previousIdOfTweetContainingQuery) {
           // my word is tweeted
           previousIdOfTweetContainingQuery = mostRecentTweetContainingQueryId;
           Date d = mostRecentTweetContainingQuery.getCreatedAt();
           msg = mostRecentTweetContainingQuery.getText();
   
           link.output(msg); // send and store in coll/"tweeters.txt"
         }
       }
     }
   
     catch (TwitterException te) {
       println("Error connecting to Twitter: " + te); //let me know if somethings not right
     };
     delay(3000);
   }