ASCII Logo on Monitor

Hello. I'm trying to use an ASCII logo on a monitor. I was initally just trying to test and see how big of a monitor i needed with the smallest text scale. However, I can't get the logo to display on the monitor at all. If I use "monitor top test" and modify it slightly i can get it to print, but then i can't really tell what it printed. I know i wrapped the peripheral right, and I can get it to display the (commented currently) "Testing…" line, but it won't display the Logo variable.

Any suggestions, and whats the easiest/best/most efficient way to do this?

local Logo = [[
  _  __									  _					  ___				  
| |/ /	___	_ __	  _ _   __ _	__| |	___	  o O O  / __|	___		  
| ' <	/ _ \  | '  \	| '_| / _' |  / _' |   / -_)	o	  | (__	/ _ \	 _	
|_|\_\   \___/  |_|_|_|  _|_|_  \__,_|  \__,_|   \___|   TS__[O]  \___|   \___/   _(_)_  
_|"""""|_|"""""|_|"""""|_|"""""|_|"""""|_|"""""|_|"""""| {======|_|"""""|_|"""""|_|"""""|
"'-0-0-'"'-0-0-'"'-0-0-'"'-0-0-'"'-0-0-'"'-0-0-'"'-0-0-'./o--000'"'-0-0-'"'-0-0-'"'-0-0-'
]]

mon = peripheral.wrap("top")
mon.setTextScale(1)
mon.clear()
mon.setCursorPos(1,1)
mon.print(Logo)
--mon.write("Testing...")
--sleep(1.5)
--mon.clear()
--mon.setCursorPos(1,1)

Something like this should work fine:

local Logo = {
  [[  _  __                                      _                      ___                   ]],
  [[ | |/ /    ___    _ __      _ _   __ _    __| |    ___      o O O  / __|    ___           ]],
  [[ | ' <    / _ \  | '  \    | '_| / _' |  / _' |   / -_)    o      | (__    / _ \     _    ]],
  [[ |_|\_\   \___/  |_|_|_|  _|_|_  \__,_|  \__,_|   \___|   TS__[O]  \___|   \___/   _(_)_  ]],
  [[_|"""""|_|"""""|_|"""""|_|"""""|_|"""""|_|"""""|_|"""""| {======|_|"""""|_|"""""|_|"""""| ]],
  [["'-0-0-'"'-0-0-'"'-0-0-'"'-0-0-'"'-0-0-'"'-0-0-'"'-0-0-'./o--000'"'-0-0-'"'-0-0-'"'-0-0-' ]],
}
local mon = peripheral.wrap("top")
mon.setTextScale(1)
term.redirect(mon)
term.clear()
term.setCursorPos(1,1)
for i = 1, #Logo do
  print(Logo[i])
end
term.restore()

If you have any questions about how it works just ask.

Thank you very much BIT. I'll play with it a little bit.

Czarified, on 20 February 2013 - 08:28 AM said:

Thank you very much BIT. I'll play with it a little bit.

No problems :)/> I really like your ASCII :)/> its cool :)/>

TheOriginalBIT, on 20 February 2013 - 08:32 AM said:

No problems :)/> I really like your ASCII :)/> its cool :)/>

Thanks! I was trying to follow a tutorial I found on the forums here, but it doesn't really explain the best way to use this on a monitor. There's a link to an ASCII generator in the thread.

Czarified, on 20 February 2013 - 08:40 AM said:

Thanks! I was trying to follow a tutorial I found on the forums here, but it doesn't really explain the best way to use this on a monitor. There's a link to an ASCII generator in the thread.

Oh is it that 'easy ascii art' one? I've been meaning to look at that tutorial properly. yeh you may need a big-ish monitor to display that full logo.

Yep that's the one! And I was afraid of that..I was mainly seeing how big it needed to be. Haven't had a chance to test it yet in game though.

well its 91 chars. and iirc its 9 chars to a monitor width. so about 11 monitors. I think thats more than the width. although don't quote me on any of those figures, really tired atm. no sleep.

It does work with the max width monitor and displays better with the period erased. is there an easy-ish way to make it marquee through, with overlapping?

So I was trying to see if I could animate this logo. Currently I made a new variable for each frame, but I don't really know how to put them into a matrix for easy printing in the animation. How can I do this, when each ASCII variable is a table already?

I just tested this code and it seems to work:

for frame = 1, #logo[1] + 1 do
	term.clear()
	for line = 1, #logo do
		local left = logo[line]:sub(frame)
		local right = logo[line]:sub(1, frame-1)
		term.setCursorPos(1, line)
		term.write(left..right)
	end
	sleep(0.1)
end

Where "logo" is your table with all of your lines for your logo.

Kingdaro, on 26 February 2013 - 12:37 PM said:

I just tested this code and it seems to work:

for frame = 1, #logo[1] + 1 do
	term.clear()
	for line = 1, #logo do
		local left = logo[line]:sub(frame)
		local right = logo[line]:sub(1, frame-1)
		term.setCursorPos(1, line)
		term.write(left..right)
	end
	sleep(0.1)
end

Where "logo" is your table with all of your lines for your logo.

So currently i have 111 different variables for my animation frames. (Logo1 - Logo111). But instead I could have just used this simple for loop? lol Wish I had known that before I spent an hour typing it all out… I figured there was a way to do it, I just didn't know how, since i wanted it to overlap. But I see the "left" and "right" variables there are how you're accomplishing that. Thank you very much!

Just a tip for the future: go ahead and ask if there's an easier way, rather than going about the harder way. ;)/>

Kingdaro, on 26 February 2013 - 01:06 PM said:

Just a tip for the future: go ahead and ask if there's an easier way, rather than going about the harder way. ;)/>

Will definitely do than from now on! I've been asking for a lot of help though recently and I didn't want it to seem like I just wanted you guys to write all my code. :)/> Thanks again! And happy 800th post!