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Need help switching between text on monitors and loops

Started by Mr_Cony, 05 December 2014 - 01:58 AM
Mr_Cony #1

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Posted 05 December 2014 - 02:58 AM
I'm having troubles getting a program to loop. I want these two pastebins to switch between each other (http://pastebin.com/itU4Uf4P and http://pastebin.com/fVJe04E4). This is the code I was using to display it on the monitor.

shell.run("Rules")
sleep(5)
shell.run("Banned")
end
return
valithor #2

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1023 posts

Posted 05 December 2014 - 03:18 AM
Mr_Cony, on 05 December 2014 - 02:58 AM said:
I'm having troubles getting a program to loop. I want these two pastebins to switch between each other (http://pastebin.com/itU4Uf4P and http://pastebin.com/fVJe04E4). This is the code I was using to display it on the monitor.

shell.run("Rules")
sleep(5)
shell.run("Banned")
end
return

I am going to assume that you meant to put a while true do loop above the shell.run("Rules") in that case what is happening is you are writing the information from rules, sleeping 5 seconds writing the stuff from banned and then immediately overwriting it with the stuff from rules again. You would need to put another sleep after the shell.run("Banned")

If you are in fact using a while true do loop that return will never be reached, and is not needed.

example:
while true do
  shell.run("Rules")
  sleep(5)
  shell.run("Banned")
  sleep(5)
end

I personally do not like using shell.run when it is unneeded, so I would do something more like this
example

mon = peripheral.wrap("left")

function Banned()
  mon.clear()
  mon.setTextScale(1)
  mon.setCursorPos(5,1)
  mon.write("Banned Items: ")
  mon.setCursorPos(2,2)
  mon.write("1. Nuke")
  mon.setCursorPos(2,3)
  mon.write("2. Industrial TNT")
  mon.setCursorPos(2,4)
  mon.write("3. Nova Catalyst")
  mon.setCursorPos(2,5)
  mon.write("4. Nova Cataclysm")
  mon.setCursorPos(2,6)
  mon.write("5. Destruction Catalyst")
  mon.setCursorPos(2,7)
  mon.write("6. Catalytic Lens")
  mon.setCursorPos(2,8)
  mon.write("7. Cart Dispenser")
  mon.setCursorPos(2,9)
  mon.write("8. Chest Cart, Tank Cart, Work Cart")
  mon.setCursorPos(2,10)
  mon.write("9. Wireless Tracker")
  mon.setCursorPos(2,11)
  mon.write("10. Harvest Goddess Banned ")
  mon.setCursorPos(2,12)
  mon.write("(creates massive lag when used to make emc farms)")
  mon.setCursorPos(2,13)
  mon.write("11. Mining Laser")
  mon.setCursorPos(5,15)
  mon.write("Uncraftable Items:")
  mon.setCursorPos(2,16)
  mon.write("1. All collectors (Can buy from adminshop or other players)")
  mon.setCursorPos(2,17)
  mon.write("2. World Anchor (Can buy from adminshop or other players)")
end
function Rules()
  mon.clear()
  mon.setTextScale(1)
  mon.setCursorPos(5,1)
  mon.write("Banned Items: ")
  mon.setCursorPos(2,2)
  mon.write("1. Nuke")
  mon.setCursorPos(2,3)
  mon.write("2. Industrial TNT")
  mon.setCursorPos(2,4)
  mon.write("3. Nova Catalyst")
  mon.setCursorPos(2,5)
  mon.write("4. Nova Cataclysm")
  mon.setCursorPos(2,6)
  mon.write("5. Destruction Catalyst")
  mon.setCursorPos(2,7)
  mon.write("6. Catalytic Lens")
  mon.setCursorPos(2,8)
  mon.write("7. Cart Dispenser")
  mon.setCursorPos(2,9)
  mon.write("8. Chest Cart, Tank Cart, Work Cart")
  mon.setCursorPos(2,10)
  mon.write("9. Wireless Tracker")
  mon.setCursorPos(2,11)
  mon.write("10. Harvest Goddess Banned ")
  mon.setCursorPos(2,12)
  mon.write("(creates massive lag when used to make emc farms)")
  mon.setCursorPos(2,13)
  mon.write("11. Mining Laser")
  mon.setCursorPos(5,15)
  mon.write("Uncraftable Items:")
  mon.setCursorPos(2,16)
  mon.write("1. All collectors (Can buy from adminshop or other players)")
  mon.setCursorPos(2,17)
  mon.write("2. World Anchor (Can buy from adminshop or other players)")
end

while true do
  Rules()
  sleep(5)
  Banned(5)
  sleep(5)
end
Edited on 05 December 2014 - 02:19 AM