HELP (stupid and mysterious?) format error - For structure within a MIDI responsive sketch

Chrisir,

Thank you very much for your reply! I guess I need to review in depth the nature of the different types of statements.
But actually, I have already tried the code you suggest (with the double ==) , but if I declare it as an if statement, the debugger tells me: ‘extraneous input’ expecting {‘color’, 'abstract, . etc…

Anyhow,