Tips to a cool program

I'm making an utility program that will allow me to control my base at distance with the Terminal Glasses from OpenPeripherals and the ChatBox from MoarPeripherals. The problem is that I have a limited space to work with and my idea to save space is to enable the glasses if a moving point hovers over a certain area (I saw it in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqtLcN3v1Rs). Now, this video is kinda old and I don't know if it is possible to do anymore. My first question is it possible? My second question is if it is possible to get rid, somehow, of the inventory/XP/health/food/etc bars with something.

Taken from the description of that video:
"This is a basic API which adds mouse functionality to your terminal glasses from OpenPeripheral. It works using an OpenCCSensor that gets your yaw and pitch, and then converts that into X/Y screen coordinates."
So I suggest you use that guy's API. That's the simplest way to do it.

Still, I just wanna know if there is a way to do without the ccsensor. I could use the API, but if there was a better way, I don't really mind to to an entire API from scratch.

No, you need either that sensor or a sensor that provides the same functions. It's amazing he was able to do that at all, in my opinion.

That is a shame. I will then have to use the moar peripherals to do this task (it will be easier, I think) cause I think there is a range limit. And yes, indeed it is amazing how he did! BTW, is it possible to eliminate the minecraft bars (like health, hunger, xp, etc)?

Writer, on 15 January 2015 - 09:05 PM said:

That is a shame. I will then have to use the moar peripherals to do this task (it will be easier, I think) cause I think there is a range limit. And yes, indeed it is amazing how he did! BTW, is it possible to eliminate the minecraft bars (like health, hunger, xp, etc)?

I don't think Moar Peripherals can do that. You can also eliminate the bars with use of a client-side mod, but I don't think there's a peripheral for it. You'll just have to work with the range limit, or use a Pocket PC.

No, with the moar peripherals I will be able to digit a code and it will execute it. Nothing to do with range or mouse position. About the bars, well then. Looks like there won't be 2 mods in the modpack I'm playing (they really weren't necessary, they were just there when I installed the modpack).

LemonLake, on 15 January 2015 - 09:32 PM said:

I don't think Moar Peripherals can do that.

I reckon he's talking about the chat box peripherals it offers, which allows two-way communications between players and computers.

Well speaking as the author of that video, it wasn't actually all that difficult. There wasn't even any trig actually. Essentially, all that I did was get the inital yaw/pitch of the player, store it in a variable, and then loop and get their new yaw/pitch. Then all you have to do is take the amount that the yaw/pitch has changed and multiply that by some "scaling factor" (which is essentially the mouse speed). The API itself is only 108 lines long, and most of that is boiler-plate code required to interpret the sensor data.

I think your best option here would definitely be to use the ChatBox. You'll probably find that commands are quicker/easier to use anyway, particularly given that you won't be restricted to a small radius of the sensor. That was a really fun/neat little project, but it's just not practical for most purposes. If one day OpenPeripheral comes out with a way to get your screen size and detect player pitch/yaw without respect to distance, then it would definitely be more feasible. Or maybe now that I'm getting back into modding I'll make a mod that can do something similar myself :)/>

Anyway, if you do happen to use my API, you'll probably have to change things up a little to interpret the sensor data (or so I've been told). I think OpenPeripheral has changed how it works/sends events. Let me know if you do change it, I'll link the new version from the video.

Thank you so much! Although your API is really cool, right now I kinda changed my mind. What I wanted was something like Google Glasses, with a menu where you selected what you want with, in this case, your mouse, but I already found a new way to do the thing. I may then post the code when I'm done. :)/>