How to run a program on a monitor in the background while startup is running

Hi there

Sorry if this has been asked but everything I have looked at so far is too confusing to me and I cant get it to work.

I Have a startup program that I want to run and at the same time I want it to output time to a monitor on the right.

Here's my failing code so far

os.pullEvent = os.pullEventRaw
os.loadAPI("rom/apis/peripheral")
while true do
parallel.waitForAny(Time(), startup() shell.run("shell") end)
end
os.loadAPI("rom/apis/shell")
os.loadAPI("rom/apis/os")
term.clear()
term.setCursorPos(1,1)
print("Sean's PC enter password to get to main menu")
sleep(15)
input = read("*")
if input == "password" then --quoted out as its my computer on my online private server
shell.run("Mainmenu")
else
write("Wrong Password ")
sleep(5)
term.clear()
sleep(5)
write("Restarting ")
sleep(5)
os.reboot()
end
if input == "  " then
write("I don't get what you want ")
os.reboot()
end

Let's say you have two scripts, and you want to run them side by side. You'd give them different names, then make a startup script just containing this:

parallel.waitForAll(function() shell.run("script1") end, function() shell.run("script2") end)

If you have access to ComputerCraft 1.6 or later, and you're using an advanced system, then you could instead make use of shell.openTab().

Thanks for the fast reply.

What you said works the only problem is it displays my Time program on the screen and not on the monitor

So if I could have the main program that loads other stuff and in the background have Time running to the monitor.

If you don't want to code the Time script to output to your monitor, change the shell.run() / shell.openTab() call for it to something like:

shell.run("monitor top timeScript")

Yeah cant get the time to display on the monitor while doing other stuff.

Thanks for the help though.

Your monitor is on the right, you would need

shell.run("monitor right timeScript")