serialEvent not working in osx

using Tom Igoe's serial event processing code:

and some arduino code that works.

I have verified that this works just fine under windows.

I have yet to verify if it works under linux.

It does NOT work in osx.

OSX hack:

run the following python script FIRST before processing sketch:

#!/usr/bin/env python

import serial

from time import sleep

s = serial.Serial(port='/dev/tty.usbmodem411', baudrate=9600)

while (1):

sleep(1)

s.write('\n')

l = s.readline().strip()

print l

This will "prime the pump" of processing so to speak.

Obviously, the serialEvent has NOT been tested in osx.

I will verify later today, if the same situation applies to linux