Updating Monitor Info With No Scrolling

Hey guys. I've been playing around with open.peripheral recently and I wanted to create a simple program that outputs the max capacity of a batbox and displays how much of that capacity is being used. this is what I have so far.

while true do
os.startTimer(5)
os.pullEvent("timer")
local bat1cap = net.callRemote("batbox_3","getCapacity")
local bat2cap = net.callRemote("batbox_4","getCapacity")
local bat1store = net.callRemote("batbox_3","getStored")
local bat2store = net.callRemote("batbox_4","getStored")
print("BatBox [1] Power Levels")
print(bat1store.."/"..bat1cap)
print("")
print("BatBox [2] Power Levels")
print(bat2store.."/"..bat2cap)
end

however. When I go to display this on my monitor the text obviously scrolls up as the new lines are being printed.
I tried doing this

while true do
shell.run('clear')
os.startTimer(5)
os.pullEvent("timer")
local bat1cap = net.callRemote("batbox_3","getCapacity")
local bat2cap = net.callRemote("batbox_4","getCapacity")
local bat1store = net.callRemote("batbox_3","getStored")
local bat2store = net.callRemote("batbox_4","getStored")
print("BatBox [1] Power Levels")
print(bat1store.."/"..bat1cap)
print("")
print("BatBox [2] Power Levels")
print(bat2store.."/"..bat2cap)
end

but the result is that the screen stays blank.
Any suggestions?

If you clear the screen, wait five seconds, write a bunch of stuff to the screen, clear the screen, wait five seconds, etc., when will people be able to read what's on the screen?

You need to clear the screen after waiting 5 seconds, not before.

Also,

os.startTimer(5)
os.pullEvent("timer")

is the same as:

sleep(5)

diegodan1893, on 10 September 2013 - 06:01 AM said:

You need to clear the screen after waiting 5 seconds, not before.

Also,

os.startTimer(5)
os.pullEvent("timer")

is the same as:

sleep(5)

Ooooooh… this is why I shouldn't code when I'm sleepy.