Mirror Utility Program - Contents Of Computer Screen On Monitor. v2

pastebin get DW3LCC3L mirror

• Duplicates contents of screen in perfect fashion onto monitor
• All monitor_touch event get transformed into mouse_click 1 events with translated coordinates.
• Nice border to mark where screen ends. Also unused sides are nicely grayed out.
• Handles term.redirect()!!! Attempts to resize mirror screen to fit new term target size. If not get as close as it can. Also if term.target is a monitor reacts to resizing of that monitor too.
• Reacts to resizes of mirror monitor and attempts to keep it operational
• For more that one mirror you can chain program. Command

  
  mirror monitor_0 mirror monitor_1 test
  

  Will mirror contents of terminal on both monitor_0 and monitor_1. They can be completely different sizes.

Spoiler

As always i attach picture of bTetris morrored from term to a monitor!! It's still awesome game take a look at it! This image also shows chained mirrors.

Spoiler

Warning: This program version was made for old version of ComputerCaft and will not work on current generation.


Mirror Utility Program - Contents of Computer Screen On Monitor. v1.2

Mirror program allows you to copy contents of standard computer onto nearby screen. This allows for easy acces to screen while having big monitor showing you exactly whats happening. It was created from standard monitor program.

Download Here: http://pastebin.com/pCtnxcWv
Or ingame by using command:

pastebin get pCtnxcWv mirror

(requires http-api to be active)

Features List:

• Duplicates contents of screen in perfect fashion onto monitor
• All monitor_touch event get transformed into mouse_click 1 events with translated coordinates. If you still want to receive raw monitor_touch events use flag" -t". If you don't want to receive mouse_click events use flag "-c"
• Nice border to mark where screen ends. you can use flag "-b" to remove it or "-a" to make it thicker.
• Handles term.redirect()!!! Attempts to resize mirror screen to fit new term target size. If not get as close as it can. Also if term.target is a monitor reacts to resizing of that monitor too.
• Reacts to resizes of mirror monitor and attempts to keep it operational
• For more that one mirror you can chain program. Command

  
  mirror monitor_0 mirror monitor_1 test
  

  Will mirror contents of termina on both monitor_0 and monitor_1. They can be completely different sizes/ use different flags.

In this picture bTetris redirected term to a monitor but my mirror catch on and resized himself to match new term size!!


Example of chained call (more than one copy of terminal)


This program if perfect when you want to show something to group of people and don't want them to mess with console.

Bomb Bloke, on 09 November 2013 - 11:58 PM said:

It's probably a moot point for scripts that don't try to center themselves, but you might consider adding additional command line parameters to allow users to specify exactly how many columns/rows need to remain visible.

Molinko, on 06 December 2013 - 09:37 PM said:

I have a handy suggestion if you think you'd like it I'd be hapy to see it!!
The program could have a cmd line flag like '-keyboard' or something.. that will bring up a touchscreen keyboard ether on the redirected monitor or on a second monitor just for input to the redirected program. Other than my HARSH JUDGEMENT ON YOU AS A PROGRAMMER, great job, looks very handy as is and well coded too :)/>.
p.s. PLZ take my suggestion if you have time to burn.. thanks

Troll., on 06 December 2013 - 11:20 PM said:

Seems very impressive! Ive been trying to figure out a way to do something like this for my program, and boom :D/>. There you are. I will check it out tomorrow.

wojbie, on 23 December 2013 - 04:22 PM said:

hmm i wrote it a long time ago when i wanted to copy monitor program functionality. There are some parts of code that would not translate correctly in api form (i know i was young and idiot in lua ways, ) I never considered making a api from this thing. While i think it can be done i also for-see problems with term.redirect causing a mess ;p Sadly i don't have a lot of time those day to fit this program up and make something like api from that. Anyone is welcome to try it ;p i might get on it when i have some free time.

comp500, on 24 December 2013 - 04:29 AM said:

wojbie, on 23 December 2013 - 04:22 PM said:

hmm i wrote it a long time ago when i wanted to copy monitor program functionality. There are some parts of code that would not translate correctly in api form (i know i was young and idiot in lua ways, ) I never considered making a api from this thing. While i think it can be done i also for-see problems with term.redirect causing a mess ;p Sadly i don't have a lot of time those day to fit this program up and make something like api from that. Anyone is welcome to try it ;p i might get on it when i have some free time.

Thanks! I currently have it set up with monitor and mirror together outputting one program to 2 monitors but i need to be able to control the terminal itself.

Mr_Programmer, on 09 January 2014 - 11:53 PM said:

how would i get this to work using wired modems hooked up to a computer and a monitor?

scratch that last comment i found it out and i cant get the display to go bigger as im using a 7x5 monitor and its only using like 5x4 :(/>

Lyqyd, on 10 January 2014 - 12:32 AM said:

You could try adjusting the text scale. Check the wiki for more information.

Bomb Bloke, on 09 November 2013 - 08:34 PM said:

I wonder if you could rig this to direct the output to a computer (via rednet or whatever) instead of a monitor. That computer would forward it on to an actual monitor, and accept "redirects" from multiple computers at once (switching between the one it actually shows at random, or on redstone events etc). Having a large display in an arcade that alternates between what's happening on the different computers in the area would be pretty cool.

wojbie, on 09 November 2013 - 08:48 PM said:

As for directing output to computer via rednet that would require me to write whole new term api with virtual screen storage and stuff. Good idea but not possible with direction I am going with this program right now.

wojbie, on 08 May 2014 - 07:55 AM said:

Yes i realize its not working correctly in 1.6 due to the changes in redirection mechanisms. I am working on new improved version but its a little bit in future because of lack of time to code right now. Will update as soon as its ready. :D/>

wojbie, on 11 May 2014 - 05:41 PM said:

wojbie, on 08 May 2014 - 07:55 AM said:

Yes i realize its not working correctly in 1.6 due to the changes in redirection mechanisms. I am working on new improved version but its a little bit in future because of lack of time to code right now. Will update as soon as its ready. :D/>

Luca0208, on 16 November 2014 - 12:14 PM said:

If i try to do this my PC crashes with always other errors(See this error list:

mirror monitor_0 edit test
multishell:39: attempt to call nil
mirror monitor_0 shell
shell:4 attempt to call nil

When i look at the specified lines its alway term.current(), is there a way to fix it?

Yes i realize its not working correctly in 1.6 due to the changes in redirection mechanisms.
I am working on new improved version but its a little bit in future because of lack of time to code right now.
Will update as soon as its ready. :D/>

["current"] = saveterm["current"],

• Total Rewrite
• Some features got removed due to lack of need. If requested they may come back
• It works in new CC!

Bomb Bloke, on 03 October 2015 - 08:31 AM said:

Hmm… Is this you gearing up to work on this thing? ;)/>/>/>

Bomb Bloke, on 03 October 2015 - 08:31 AM said:

Hmm… Is this you gearing up to work on this thing? ;)/>

wojbie, on 03 October 2015 - 11:20 AM said:

-long post-

Green, on 03 October 2015 - 12:11 PM said:

What about a hide-able on-screen keyboard with virtual mouse, where you can specify what type of mouse_click or mouse_scroll will be sent to the computer? And a terminate event sender and a paste event sender?
Toggle shift and toggle ctrl… for example for multiselection in (my filebrowser, see in my signature ;)/> ) Lattice…

wojbie, on 03 October 2015 - 11:20 AM said:

At the moment all that errors for me is battleship treasure disk. And i am working on figuring out why.

--redirect just to block scroll
local redir={}
for k,v in pairs(originalTerm) do
  if k~="scroll" then
    redir[k]=v
  else
    redir[k]=function() end
  end
end
originalTerm = term.redirect(redir)

Bomb Bloke, on 03 October 2015 - 03:24 PM said:

(because your createMultitable() function returns empty tables).

• Bugfix with creation of terminal object.