Dark Buttons! - Easy bundled cable control gui for monitors

Hello all, this is my latest program Dark Buttons!

This program allows you to turn bundled cable wire colours on and off at the touch of a button, in other words buttons are 'mapped' to wire colours allowing for easy control of systems via redstone. (See screenshots)

Download

• Github - Good old copy and paste
• Pastebin: N22T449A -using the dark retriever!

What you need:

• Computercraft with HTTP enabled! (not tested with versions below 1.5)
• Redpower2 (those bundled cables!)
• An advanced computer + advanced monitor

Features

• Easy button interface
• Button wizard for easy button creation and deletion within a few clicks - without having to know any code!
• Multi-monitor support
• The program will remember if a the button is activated
• Auto-update!
• Compatible with ComputerCraft 1.5 and 1.51

Planned features

• A better description! :)/>
• Config - e.g bundled cable wire side
• 'widgets' - maybe a clock or label?
• Editable buttons
• Advanced button creation

Known issues

• Bundled cable position is currently only set to the bottom of the computer
• The program may crash on auto update, just run it again (issue with http)

Screenshots:

Spoiler

Check out my other programs!

• Dark Programs: Server with Database! / Keycards / remote login / relays etc
• Dark Chat - rednet chat program

A GUI API without an actual API! Nice! :lol:/>

Looks interesting, will have to give this a test

Really interresting!

PS: I love the design of yours screen :P/>

updated Dark Buttons to 1.2
Surprisingly the program was already quite compatible with computercraft's new peripheral network cables, I just added a few lines to add the extra monitors to the table!

Also fixed a few bugs.

I have a suggestion: Can you make it possible to choose whether the buttons function as a toggle, or as a pulse? (like vanilla buttons). A lot of my contraptions use pulses instead of toggles, and it would be way more easy to have that function built in :)/>

Zet0r, on 24 March 2013 - 10:49 PM said:

I have a suggestion: Can you make it possible to choose whether the buttons function as a toggle, or as a pulse? (like vanilla buttons). A lot of my contraptions use pulses instead of toggles, and it would be way more easy to have that function built in :)/>

Yes, im working on a custom "mapping" type thing, so you could even map the buttons to a rednet signal. Different types of "modes" will be available such as pulse buttons, toggle buttons and selector buttons (Can't think of the name but its the one where one button is on and the others toggle off)

All coming in the next update, stay tuned!

is there anyway to use rednet cable from mfr in place of rp2 cables?

Shinra2121, on 31 July 2013 - 10:36 AM said:

is there anyway to use rednet cable from mfr in place of rp2 cables?

Yes they should work.