Showing a List on a Monitor

Split into new topic.

Print in the center: (screen width - text length) / 2 + 1, where text length in this case would be 10 ("To-Do List")

Printing a certain color: Use the colors API. http://www.computerc...nfo/wiki/Colors And use term.setTextColor(color) to set it. Example: term.setTextColor(colors.blue)

Printing a list: You could save the list to a file, in plaintext. Then, read the file and print it to the screen. For this, perhaps a raw file would be easier.
See http://www.computerc...fo/wiki/Fs.open for file writing/reading. You'll want to look for modes "w" (write) and "r" (read), and possibly "a" (append).

Try this:

endnum= --Put the end number of the list here
messagetext="" --The string going into the list goes here
for i=1,endnum,1 do
print(i .. ". " .. messagetext)
end

x,y = term.getSize()
local toDo = {"bla","blaaa"}
term.setTextColor(colors.blue)
term.setCursorPos((x-string.len("To-Do-List"))/2+1,1)
term.write("To-Do-List")
term.setTextColor(colors.red)
term.setCursorPos(1,3)
for k,v in pairs(toDo) do
print(k..".  "..ToDo[k])
end

I think that works :]

local monitorSide = "top" -- replace this with the side your monitor is on
local title = "To-Do List"

local list = { -- replace these with your todo list
  'Do something',
  'Do something else',
  'Etc.'
}

local mon = peripheral.wrap(monitorSide)
local w,h = mon.getSize()

mon.setBackgroundColor(colors.white)
mon.clear()

mon.setCursorPos((w - #title) / 2, 2)
mon.setTextColor(colors.red)
mon.write(title)

mon.setTextColor(colors.blue)
for i=1, #list do
  mon.setCursorPos(3, 3 + i)
  mon.write(i..'. '..list[i])
end

I felt like being fancy on this one. White background because blue and red don't show up well on black.

Thanks for the help. Kingdaro I tried the program and its saying

bios:338: [string 'list']:6: '}' expected (to close '{' at line 4)

I typed it exactly like you did. Also just fyi, this is for a 2x2 adv monitor.

Epoch86, on 08 May 2013 - 11:55 PM said:

Thanks for the help. Kingdaro I tried the program and its saying
bios:338: [string 'list']:6: '}' expected (to close '{' at line 4)
I typed it exactly like you did.

I have a feeling that you either missed the closing } for the table OR you have a period/full-stop or forgot the comma at the end of one of your entries in the table