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Started by Waitdev_, 06 March 2016 - 10:01 AM

Waitdev_ #1

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Posted 06 March 2016 - 11:01 AM

Kind of like what I've seen Bomb Bloke do, I was hoping to be able to see ascii characters in a grid. pretty much 8*4, with characters 127 - 159.

Bomb Bloke #2

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Posted 06 March 2016 - 11:39 AM

I for one am unsure what you mean. What was the question? Are you talking about this sort of thing?

Dragon53535 #3

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Posted 06 March 2016 - 07:19 PM

I think he means like the gif on this

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Posted 09 March 2016 - 08:07 AM

Yeah, what dragon said. for example:



a b c d
e f g h
i j k l
m n o p

valithor #5

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Posted 09 March 2016 - 08:18 AM

You just have to loop through the range and use string.char to get the numbers

ex:


term.setCursorPos(1,1)

for i = 128, 159 do
  if (i-128)%8 == 0 and i~=128 then
	print("")
  end
  term.write(string.char(i).." ")
end

note 127-159 is 33 characters, so it will not fit evenly in a 8*4 pattern.

Edited on 09 March 2016 - 07:22 AM

Waitdev_ #6

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Posted 09 March 2016 - 09:11 AM

valithor, on 09 March 2016 - 08:18 AM said:
You just have to loop through the range and use string.char to get the numbers

ex:
term.setCursorPos(1,1)

for i = 128, 159 do
  if (i-128)%8 == 0 and i~=128 then
	print("")
  end
  term.write(string.char(i).." ")
end
note 127-159 is 33 characters, so it will not fit evenly in a 8*4 pattern.

Thanks for the help :)/>