Paintutils On A Monitor

I would like to be able to use the paintutils API on an advanced monitor adjacent to my computer. I have no idea how. I tried something like

monitor.paintutils.drawLine(x, y, x, y, color)

and

local function line = paintutils.drawLine(x, y, x, y, color) end
monitor.line()

I don't want to use a separate program

shell.run("monitor", "right", "program")

any ideas?

You should redirect to your monitor using:

term.redirect( monObject )
-- Regular paintutil calls get onto the monitor
term.restore()

Here is an awesome tutorial about redirecting, written by LBPHacker

Engineer, on 09 October 2013 - 05:23 PM said:

You should redirect to your monitor using:

term.redirect( monObject )
-- Regular paintutil calls get onto the monitor
term.restore()

Here is an awesome tutorial about redirecting, written by LBPHacker

Thanks,just what I needed! Great job following the Ask A Pro Renewal Project

i don't really understand what your saying

well, it works like this:

term is an output object. You can redirect the flow of the output to a monitor by doing this:

m = peripheral.wrap(sideofmon)
term.redirect(m)

Now everything that is to be printed on the term, will be printed on the monitor.

Just try it out ;)/>

Engineer, on 09 October 2013 - 05:23 PM said:

You should redirect to your monitor using:

term.redirect( monObject )
-- Regular paintutil calls get onto the monitor
term.restore()

term.restore was removed at CC 1.6. Now term.redirect returns a value of where it just redirected FROM so you need to grab that, and then redirect back to it when you're done.

local oldTerm = term.redirect(monitor)
--#Do stuff with monitor
term.redirect(oldTerm)