Hi all, apologies if this has been asked before - I've searched the forum and didn't find anything...

I'm a complete novice to Processing, and I'm three-quarters through a simple project - designing a presentation lesson using Processing.

I've spent days working out nice animations, etc, and now I've hit a complete dead end...

When trying to load the text file with the numerous lines of the presentation, I get the "cannot convert from String to String[]".

I have limited coding skills, but I'm aware that there should be some method to call - Googling the error, I found ways around this in other languages, but cannot get these to work.

I simply want to display 8 lines of text within the display, and, once a mouse click occurs, the next 8 lines replace the current lines.

I've stripped out the rest of the code, and the problematic code is below:

int lineCount = 0;
int lineSize = 35;

public String lines[] = dataPath("list.txt");

void setup() {
  size(800,560);
  PImage img;
  img = loadImage("green-blank-blackboard.jpg");
  background(img);
  PFont font;
  font = loadFont("KristenITC-Regular-32.vlw");
  textFont(font, 32);
}

void draw() {
  noStroke();
  noFill();

}
void mouseClicked(){
 
  //String lines[] = loadStrings("list.txt");
 
    for (int i=lineCount; i < lineCount; i++) {
    text(lines[i],40,lineSize*i*2);
    }
    lineCount = lineCount + 8;
}

Any help would be greatly appreciated, as I've wasted loads of time making the rest look pretty, and I'm burned out at this stage!