advanced displaying

[JuliCash]

Hey guys I was thinking, if there are any possibilities to make screens/to show information in the monetary world...
I know that with ic you can show the energy of mfsu and some nuclear info, but what's about e.g. items in a chest... Is it possible with cc to somehow count them and show this on a ccmonitor? What about rp?
Any suggestions?

Greetings

 

[Enigmius1]

The short answer is that yes, you can.

The long answer is that it would be a very substantial undertaking unless there is a mod out there that provides a way to read explicit chest contents. I know CC has the monitors that you can place adjacent to one another in order to create very large screens, but it would probably be RP components doing the grunt work (counting) and reporting to the CC app.

 

[vScourge]

Tekkit has a mod called CCSensors that supported getting inventory info to computers. Like others, I wrestled with it and was unable to get it to work reliably or as-advertised in SMP. I later read something about the mod being discontinued. I hope a replacement is developed soon, it would be very useful.

That said, FTB Direwolf20 has MiscPeripherals for CC which contains the Interactive Sorter block. One cool detail of that block is that is not only lets you write your own programs to sort to outputs, but it reports the IDs of blocks passing through it. If you used that somewhere in your factory and passed all items through it, it could keep a running tally of what was in downstream inventories. In theory.

 

[Lambert2191]

doesn't the sortron do something like what OP is asking for?

 

[Abdiel]

Both the Sortron (RP) and the Interactive Sorter (CC, MiscPeripherals) allow you to programatically read the contents of an inventory.