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Re: Processing problem

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On 05/03/2012 09:40 AM, Pete wrote:
> Complete newbie here, so go easy on me, OK?  I already know this is an
> inappropriate forum to discuss this particular problem, but I reckon
> you guys are about the nearest thing I've got to finding a quick
> simple answer to what should be an absurdly easy problem to deal with,
> but it's been doing my head in all morning.
>
> OK, so here's the thing:  I'm using an arduino mega board to connect a
> PC running win7 (64-bit) with some external apparatus.  I'm using
> "processing" as a controlling program within the PC to talk to the
> arduino board.  I downloaded processing from their website OK, and
> installed it OK, but it seems the serial library is missing.  When I
> type:
>
> import processing.serial.*;
> serial.list();
>
> I would expect a list of the available COM ports.  Instead, I get the
> error message:
>
> Cannot find anything named "serial"
>
> So obviously the serial library is missing.  I checked out the
> processing website and found a definition of the serial library, but
> no obvious way to download a copy, or anything resembling a .zip file
> that might be downloadable.  Am I simply looking in the wrong place?
> Can anyone advise, or point me in the right direction to a solution?
>
> Cheers,
> Pete.

Serial.jar is included with the processing-1.5.1-linux.tgz
distribution I just downloaded. Don't know about the Win version.

Have you read the instructions here:
<http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Interfacing/Processing>?

There seems to be some platform specific stuff that I ran across 
somewhere(?).

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Processing problem Pete <petrovius@googlemail.com> - 2012-05-03 06:40 -0700
  Re: Processing problem markspace <-@.> - 2012-05-03 06:51 -0700
    Re: Processing problem Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-05-03 07:57 -0700
    Re: Processing problem Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-05-03 12:39 -0400
  Re: Processing problem Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-05-03 12:29 -0400
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