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tommyroyall #1

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Posted 20 February 2013 - 10:18 AM

Peripheral Scanner

I have created a program of which will scan all 6 sides of your computer and then print what the peripheral types are. I encountered a need for this program when I was attempting to write something to find and register all modems and iron note blocks from Miscperiphals. I refined the program a little bit and decided that it is just good enough to be put up on the forums :)/>. I didn't put any screenshots up because all it does is print out whatever is there, so lets say you have a disk drive below and a modem on the right of your computer, this would be the output:

Bottom: drive Right: modem

Code: http://pastebin.com/kRXtZ95X

masterdisasterHD #2

126 posts

Location The Netherlands

Posted 18 June 2013 - 02:57 AM


function getType(side)
 if peripheral.isPresent(side) then
  print(side..": "..peripheral.getType(side))
 else
  print(side..": none")
 end
end

function getMethods(side)
 if peripheral.isPresent(side) then
  A = peripheral.getMethods(side)
  if type(A) == "table" then
   for i,v in ipairs(A) do print(v) end
  elseif type(A) ~= "table" and A ~= nil then
   print(A)
  else
   print("Error")
  end
 else
  print("No peripheral to check on "..side)
 end
end

this should improve it a bit

jesusthekiller #3

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Location Wrocław, Poland

Posted 18 June 2013 - 08:56 AM

Just FYI you could do it In 3-5 lines…


for k, v in ipairs ({'top', 'bottom', 'left', 'right', 'front', 'back'}) do
print(v..": "..(peripheral.getType(v) or 'empty'))
end

Untested tho

masterdisasterHD #4

126 posts

Location The Netherlands

Posted 18 June 2013 - 09:20 AM

jesusthekiller, on 18 June 2013 - 08:56 AM said:
Just FYI you could do it In 3-5 lines…
for k, v in ipairs ({'top', 'bottom', 'left', 'right', 'front', 'back'}) do
print(v..(peripheral.getType(v) or 'empty'))
end
Untested tho

ya can even make it shorter:


for k, v in pairs (rs.getSides()) do
print(v..(peripheral.getType(v) or 'empty'))
end

jesusthekiller #5

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Location Wrocław, Poland

Posted 18 June 2013 - 10:16 AM

Typed it using my tablet during break, sorry :P/>

masterdisasterHD #6

126 posts

Location The Netherlands

Posted 18 June 2013 - 12:57 PM

me too :P/> but it works

jesusthekiller #7

587 posts

Location Wrocław, Poland

Posted 18 June 2013 - 02:06 PM

Good! :-)