Live updating counter (need to use strings or array?)

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Hi! thanks for replying!!

for what i need i think i would need to replace the

(frameCount % 30 == 0)

(every 30 frames it requests a new data if i understood well?? so in your code, the counter updates +1 every 30 frames, right?) with a function that could fetch data from an external source.

I tried to input your code in mine and it is working except the counter goes up very rapidly, like +50 at a time.

Here’s what i changed (selectedEvents is the array that is supposed to allow me to fetch the data from airtable i think)

void draw(){

if (selectedEvents.size() > 0) {
  thread("requestData");
}
text("incoming data= "+data+"   Count: "+count, 100,300);

}



void requestData() {
  
  //Parcourir les enregistrements 
  
 if(millis() - start_time > selectedEvents.size()) {
   
   count++;
    start_time = millis();
    data = "Xx";
   }
  
  
}

i don’t know if this has anything to do with it but would you mind explaining what the start_time is needed for?
btw i’m really sorry if this seems very convoluted and all im very new to processing and this is for a school project so the teacher did most of the coding and now i’m trying to figure some stuff out without having him do all the code ^^’