scrolling text in terminal

table1 = {"item1","item2","item3"}
function scroll(table)
--scroll through items on a table
end
scroll(table1)

function scroll(tab) --#table is a global variable, so I will use tab
  start.x, start.y = term.getCursorPosition() --#this is in 1.74 only (I think). An alternative is to pass these as parameters. Also I may be getting the function names slightly wrong
  for i, #tab do
	term.setCursorPosition(unpack(start))
	print(tab[i]) --#this may leave some leftover characters from the previous string
	--#a solution to above comment would be to print spaces till this combined string is the same length as the longest one in your table
	sleep(1000)--#wait one second so we can see it
  end--#for loop
end--#function

function scroll(tab) --#table is a global variable, so I will use tab
  start.x, start.y = term.getCursorPos() --#this is in 1.74 only (I think). An alternative is to pass these as parameters.
  for i, #tab do
		term.setCursorPos(unpack(start))
		print(tab[i]) --#this may leave some leftover characters from the previous string
		--#a solution to above comment would be to print spaces till this combined string is the same length as the longest one in your table
		sleep(1000)--#wait one second so we can see it
  end--#for loop
end--#function

Lupus590, on 03 July 2015 - 01:44 PM said:

- snip -

sleep( 1000 )

TheOddByte, on 04 July 2015 - 11:43 PM said:

Lupus590, on 03 July 2015 - 01:44 PM said:

- snip -

Just want to point out that in both of your code-snippets you put this

sleep( 1000 )

That wouldn't sleep 1 second, it would sleep 1000 seconds, remember that it works differently in ComputerCraft :P/>

Wait_, on 03 July 2015 - 01:41 PM said:

nvm, i found out a way to do it :)/>/>