Very Confused

Hi, I would like to write a program that prints a mekanism dynamic tank level onto a monitor but I can't figure out how to get the thing to read the tank level. First of all, what item(s) should I use, and second of all, what would my code look like?

Thanks in advance

Currently it depends on whether or not the Mekanism developer has added support for tank information. If he hasn't, but you've got OpenPeripheral installed, then that should pick up that it's a tank (if the dev made it right).
In either case you'd need to connect the computer to the tank in any of the ways ComputerCraft gives us, be it network cables, or sitting it directly beside it.

Once you've done that inspect the interaction you have available to you with

for i,v in ipairs(peripheral.getMethods("[side or name]") do
  print(v)
end

making sure to replace [side or name] with the side of the computer the tank is on, or the name of the tank on the network.

this will output various different methods you can call on the tank using peripheral.call, one of these (if there is support) should get you the tanks information.

theoriginalbit, on 07 December 2013 - 07:28 PM said:

Currently it depends on whether or not the Mekanism developer has added support for tank information. If he hasn't, but you've got OpenPeripheral installed, then that should pick up that it's a tank (if the dev made it right).
In either case you'd need to connect the computer to the tank in any of the ways ComputerCraft gives us, be it network cables, or sitting it directly beside it.

Once you've done that inspect the interaction you have available to you with

for i,v in ipairs(peripheral.getMethods("[side or name]") do
  print(v)
end

making sure to replace [side or name] with the side of the computer the tank is on, or the name of the tank on the network.

this will output various different methods you can call on the tank using peripheral.call, one of these (if there is support) should get you the tanks information.

Perfect. I get:
listMethods
getInvName
getStackInSlot
getSizeInventory

I'm assuming that I should be using getSizeInventory. Do I still have to use peripheral.wrap()?

ApacheChief, on 08 December 2013 - 11:22 AM said:

Perfect. I get:
listMethods
getInvName
getStackInSlot
getSizeInventory

I'm assuming that I should be using getSizeInventory.

If they're all you're getting that means two things

1. The Mekanism developer hasn't added ComputerCraft support for that block, and OpenPeripheral is picking it up instead
2. The Mekanism developer hasn't implemented the tank correct and it means that OpenPeripheral only sees it as an inventory, not a tank

It has been requested before that we add Mekanism support into OpenPeripheral (beyond the auto-add stuff), however I'm still under the belief that we shouldn't incase the Mekanism dev wishes to add extra support in later, which may cause collisions, and/or problems with peoples scripts… As such it means that I suggest you put a request forward to the Mekanism dev to add in this support.

If OpenPeripheral saw it as a tank with liquids it would provide you with the function getTankInfo.

ApacheChief, on 08 December 2013 - 11:22 AM said:

Do I still have to use peripheral.wrap()?

Yes, or you could use peripheral.call there's always (as the saying goes) two ways to skin a cat.

When you use peripheral.wrap, it actually does the peripheral.call on the peripheral, meaning that this

local chest = peripheral.wrap("chest")
print(chest.getInvName())

and this

print(peripheral.call("chest", "getInvName"))

pretty much the same