Questions about using CC to display 8 Energy cells information

Hey there ;)/>

Im just wondering if there is a way to have computercraft to show the power information of 8 energy cell combined on a monitor?

to make it so i can see how much power i have left without having to go down and clicking on every cell

maybe even getting it to show on those open pheriperal glasses aswell

Altho i'm very new to computercraft and dont really know how to write code, im wondering if this is even possible and if it is, is this something hard to learn to do?

perhaps there even is code upploaded somewhere, ( have been google'ing around abit with no luck )

It is possible, yes. It's actually very easy to do that. The problem is the way you want to visualize it. It's going to be very long and if an error occurs and you didn't make it "trial-and-error"-style, then you are going to have a bad time. If you upload some code, I will help you with that. If you want to see what methods are available, put a computer on the side of an energy cell, and type this (please change the side variable to the side the energy cell is on):

peripheral.getMethods(side)

That will print a table and you can pick two of the methods that have a very obvious name to what you wanna do.

Yeah have done that

getAdvancedMethodsData
getEnergyStored
getMaxEnergyStored

Problem is its 50 million RF or something in each energy cell, so printing the numbers would be a mess, maybe a bar would be better, but harder to do again i guess

I made an API for drawing bars on monitors… If you want it, grab it here on pastebin. Instructions on how to use:

os.loadAPI("/<program title>") --#Depends on you program title and where you stored it

<program title>.mCreateProgressBar("ID", "title", yTitle, "titleColor", value, maximum, yBar, barColor) 

Now, let's go over the variables:
ID: Needs to be a string, can be called whatever you want. DO NOT NAME DIFFERENT BARS THE SAME ID!
Title: Needs to be a string.
yTitle: Height of the title in numbers. DO NOT GIVE TWO BARS THE SAME Y VALUE!
titleColor: Needs to be a string and needs to be a color in the color-spectrum of CC.
value: For this, use <peripheralName>.getEnergyStored(). You can also use the peripheral.call() function.
maximum. For this, use <peripheralName>.getMaxEnergyStored(). You can also use the peripheral.call() function.
yBar: Height of the bar in numbers. DO NOT GIVE TWO BARS THE SAME Y VALUE!
barColor: Needs to be a string and needs to be a color in the color-spectrum of CC.

You could make a percentile of how much energy is stored to max energy allowed.
But if you use his API ^

cell = peripheral.wrap("Side")
local refreshRate = 5 -- change to any number
while true do
energy = cell.getEnergyStored
max = cell.getMaxEnergyStored
<program>.mCreateProgressBar("ID","Energy Stored", 1, "red", energy, max, 2, colors.blue )
sleep(refreshRate)
end

If that is how that works.

ahh thank you! ;)/>

But how do i get all 8 or something cells to show as one bar? just hook up modem to all 8 and drag cable or wireless up to a computer with monitors attached?

Yep, wired modems should allow you to deal with all of them. You'll still have to write the code to handle getting and presenting all of the data, of course.

ahh great

cptdeath58, on 24 June 2014 - 12:30 AM said:

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One quick little note, he named every bar's ID, I think you can better name them "Cell_1", "Cell_2", etc…

GamerNebulae, on 24 June 2014 - 10:22 AM said:

cptdeath58, on 24 June 2014 - 12:30 AM said:

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One quick little note, he named every bar's ID, I think you can better name them "Cell_1", "Cell_2", etc…

Well, that was just an example.