Using a Serial port. Can processing boot even if the port is un available

Processing Electronics (Arduino, etc.)
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Thanks a lot, that was clever, making a bool and conditioning everything on that.

I wrote something like,

if (Serial.list().length > 0)
  {
    serialConnect =true;
    myPort = new Serial(this, Serial.list()[0], 9600);
    myPort.bufferUntil(lf); 
    //myPort = new Serial (this, "/dev/tty.wchusbserial5d10", 115200);
    myPort.clear();
  } else
  {
    serialConnect =false;
  }

And then only listen to the serial port if the Serialconnect boolean is true.

Thanks a lot, Learned something new.

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