About "side"

What strings are interpreted as a side with the "side" function?

You can get the valid sides with rs.getSides(), it returns a array (table with numeric indices) with all of them. They might change (probably not), but this is the list atm (not in the order returned by rs.getSides()): "left", "right", "top", "bottom", "front", "back".

On a related topic, how do I write something on a monitor?

You can use:

term.redirect(peripheral.wrap("side")) -- change "side" to the side of the monitor
-- print stuff
term.restore() -- restores the output to the console

OK, doesn't work.

I'm using that code and it doesn't work.

It should work, did you change the side and added some prints? cause the code does nothing if you don't chage that.
Example:

term.redirect(peripheral.wrap("right"))
print("Hello World!")
term.restore()
print("Take a look at the monitor please.")

I only used 1 print command.

And did you changed "side" to the side of the monitor?

Yah. The monitor is to the right.

From what i know using monitors, this code

term.redirect(peripheral.wrap("right"))
print("Hello World!")
term.restore()
print("Take a look at the monitor please.")

Should actually be this code

term.redirect("right")
print("Hello World!")
sleep(3) -- Leaves text on the monitor for three seconds
term.restore()
print("Take a look at the monitor please.")

Zalerinian, on 26 May 2012 - 02:22 PM said:

From what i know using monitors, this code

term.redirect(peripheral.wrap("right"))
print("Hello World!")
term.restore()
print("Take a look at the monitor please.")

Should actually be this code

term.redirect("right")
print("Hello World!")
sleep(3) -- Leaves text on the monitor for three seconds
term.restore()
print("Take a look at the monitor please.")

Nope, this is not needed. Did you note the sides are defined when standing in front of it? If you stand behind the computer, left and right is reversed. If that's not the problem, we might see it when you put your code here.