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LDDestroier #1

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Posted 22 December 2015 - 12:53 PM

Basically, what I suggest is extra functions for the term/monitor API.
This is what I imagine would be quite useful:

Spoiler


term.getSelectedChar(x,y)

Returns the character on the screen at those coordinates (x,y), as well as it's text and background color.\
Use:


term.getSelectedChar(1,1) --> "C", 16, 32768


term.getScreen()

Returns the entire contents of the screen in a string format, as well as all their text and background colors ready to be blit'd.
Use:


term.blit(term.getScreen()) --(reprints the contents of the screen)
--(if mon is a monitor object)
term.blit(mon.getScreen()) --(prints the contents of the monitor)

Edited on 22 December 2015 - 11:58 AM

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Posted 22 December 2015 - 01:16 PM

They would be extremely useful for activating a buffer AFTER a script, program, shell, anything has been started.

Bomb Bloke #3

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Posted 22 December 2015 - 01:20 PM

I'm not really one for writing suggestions when I can just write the code myself, but it's struck me on more than a couple of occasions that having this sort of functionality built into the window API would be handy.

Kinda worth noting that term.blit() doesn't handle anything term.write() doesn't handle; eg, line breaks.