Bundled cable input

print("How many chickens do you have?")
x = read()
print("How many feathers do you have?")
y = read()
print("How many eggs do you have?")
z = read()

while true do
event = os.pullEvent("redstone")


if redstone.getBundledInput("back", colors.green) then
    z = z + .5


  elseif redstone.getBundledInput("back", colors.brown) then
	y = y + .5

  elseif redstone.getBundledInput("back", colors.blue) then
    x = x + .5



  else
	sleep(.1)
end

file = fs.open("stock","w")
file.writeLine("Chickens")
file.writeLine(x)
file.writeLine("Feathers")
file.writeLine(y)
file.writeLine("Eggs")

file.writeLine(z)
file:close()

local mon = peripheral.wrap("top")
mon.clear()
mon.setCursorPos(1,1)
mon.setTextScale(2)
mon.write("Chicken   ")
mon.write(x)
mon.setCursorPos(1,2)
mon.write("Feathers  ")
mon.write(y)
mon.setCursorPos(1,3)
mon.write("Eggs   ")
mon.write(z)


end

ikke009, on 27 February 2013 - 03:14 AM said:

Are you maybe using levers to handle the bundled cable input? if that is the case and your green cable is on all the time that is the first thing thats being checked, and therefore the only thing going up.. else i dont know.

ChunLing, on 28 February 2013 - 03:42 AM said:

Check your detector setup to make sure that they aren't both using green.

Alternatively, if you just connected the entire cable into the detectors, then obviously green would always be true and thus only z would update.

variable = read()
validNum = tonumber(variable)
check = type(tonumber)
if not check == "number" then return print("Not a number") end

redstone.getBundledInput

redstone.testBundledInput

SuicidalSTDz, on 28 February 2013 - 10:49 AM said:

Why are you saving the data to a different file? Just use global variables (Or local)

May we see a screenshot of what your CURRENT build looks like?

You should also check to make sure the user input is a number:

variable = read()
validNum = tonumber(variable)
check = type(tonumber)
if not check == "number" then return print("Not a number") end

Orwell, on 28 February 2013 - 10:55 AM said:

Change

redstone.getBundledInput

to

redstone.testBundledInput

eveywhere. Leave the parameters and everything else as is.

tvc, on 28 February 2013 - 11:26 AM said:

Orwell, on 28 February 2013 - 10:55 AM said:

Change

redstone.getBundledInput

to

redstone.testBundledInput

eveywhere. Leave the parameters and everything else as is.

When i do that it no longer counts the items/

Orwell, on 28 February 2013 - 12:39 PM said:

tvc, on 28 February 2013 - 11:26 AM said:

Orwell, on 28 February 2013 - 10:55 AM said:

Change

redstone.getBundledInput

to

redstone.testBundledInput

eveywhere. Leave the parameters and everything else as is.

When i do that it no longer counts the items/

Well, redstone.getBundledInput takes only one parameter. So what you have now could never work as intended. My solution should work. One problem though are the elseif's because a bundled cable could have multiple colors set.

Orwell, on 28 February 2013 - 12:53 PM said:

As I said. ;)/> But it doesn't seem to work for some reason. tvc, can you post your current code?

Orwell, on 28 February 2013 - 01:17 PM said:

Do you understand why 'redstone.getBundledInput' could never work this way?

redstone.getBundledInput("back")

redstone.testBundledInput("back",colors.blue)

Orwell, on 28 February 2013 - 01:25 PM said:

No, that's not what's happening. I linked you to this wiki page which shows that redstone.getBundledInput only takes one argument. Which means that what you are doing is exactly the same as:

redstone.getBundledInput("back")

which returns a number.

redstone.testBundledInput("back",colors.blue)

does what you want. It will return true if the blue color is set on the back and false otherwise.

print("How many chickens do you have?")
x = read()
print("How many feathers do you have?")
y = read()
print("How many eggs do you have?")
z = read()

print("How many chickens do you have?")
x = tonumber(read())
print("How many feathers do you have?")
y = tonumber(read())
print("How many eggs do you have?")
z = tonumber(read())

Orwell, on 28 February 2013 - 02:01 PM said:

Try using testBundledInput and change:

print("How many chickens do you have?")
x = read()
print("How many feathers do you have?")
y = read()
print("How many eggs do you have?")
z = read()

to:

print("How many chickens do you have?")
x = tonumber(read())
print("How many feathers do you have?")
y = tonumber(read())
print("How many eggs do you have?")
z = tonumber(read())

Also, @SuicidalSTDz: binary number doesn't seem like a good term to me (isn't every integer representable as binary anyway?). The result from getBundledInput is basically the sum of all set color values, which are powers of two.