Computercraft welcome monitors

[Daniel Haugseth]

Just made my own server for friends and family and i want a computercraft monitor displaying rules and different info i need people to know. But im really bad at programming. Does anyone know of any shortcuts i could take ?

 

[Anemoi]

On the computer touching the monitor do the following.
1. edit startup
2.print("text here")
3. repeat 2 for each line you want.
4. save program
5. monitor sidemonitorson startup

Example program:
print("Hello welcome to the server.")

Example running it with the monitor on top of the computer:
monitor top startup

 

[VikeStep]

also if you want multiple lines of text on the monitor you can do the following:

print[[Hello, This is on line 1
This is on line 2
This is on line 3
 
This is on line 5]]
 
this method above is much more efficient than other methods

 

[Daniel Haugseth]

Thanks

 

[Daniel Haugseth]

Hmm, it wont work. Just gives me an error string message.

 

[VikeStep]

Hmm, it wont work. Just gives me an error string message.

can you post the code and the error please

 

[Daniel Haugseth]

Did Print("message") every line and Local monitor = peripheral.wrap("top")

and got attempt to call nil message

 

[VikeStep]

print and local have to be lowercase
if you are using that method you have to use monitor.write() instead of print()

 

[Daniel Haugseth]

Ah, programming.. lower case.. why didnt i think of that.. i'll test it out

 

[Daniel Haugseth]

Well. got it to print my message, but only the first line

 

[VikeStep]

Well. got it to print my message, but only the first line

use the method i mentioned here

also if you want multiple lines of text on the monitor you can do the following:

print[[Hello, This is on line 1
This is on line 2
This is on line 3
 
This is on line 5]]
 
this method above is much more efficient than other methods

 

[Daniel Haugseth]

Any difference if its advanced monitors instead of regular monitors?

 

[VikeStep]

Any difference if its advanced monitors instead of regular monitors?

nope, only difference is advanced monitors can do colour
try doing monitor.setCursorPos(1,2) before writing the second line, this will start printing the words on the second line
the numbers in that function are the x and y coords on the monitor

 

[Daniel Haugseth]

Thanks, i'll try that

 

[Jared39]

What I do is:

mon=peripheral.wrap("[position]")
mon.clear()
mon.setTextScale([1-5])
mon.setCursorPos(1,1)
mon.write("Random message")

To make multiple lines just repeat:
mon.setCursorPos(1,2)
mon.write("Random message 2")

 

[Daniel Haugseth]

That worked perfect

 

[Henry Link]

The only thing the really changes it the line for the peripheral.wrap. Instead of wrapping the side you wrap the text it gave you when you connected the wired modem and turned it on. The text should pop in the chat. If you didn't see it just go back to the modem and toggle on/off and it should pop the text in to chat.