[Question]Reactor Monitor Readout

After giving it a little though I have two seperate monitor screens on the left and right. The left will control the water flow from the cieling and onto the reactor itself. The monitor readout will say something like

Water Flow: Off/On
Doors: Open/Closed

The right will have pertinent EU information for storage display.

EU Output: 150
Stored EU: 1000000

This could significantly decrease the screen size I would need on the main monitor but unfortunately would mean I'm going to be running more than one program and sensor controller. The next problem I have atm is I haven't figured out how to get programs to display onto the monitor. I played around with a sensor gui program last night and even with the largest display possible I still couldn't get it to display. Maybe I'm just doing something completely wrong here. I don't even know anything about using the floppy disks for gods sake, lol.

So now I have an even stranger problem, I tried to use this code to experiment with monitors and getting them to display text and how it works. But for some reason its not showing anything on the monitor thats right next to the computer.

Setup
Computer – Monitor

Am I just doing something weird here 0.o?

monitor = peripheral.wrap("right") -- Moved the initialization out of the loop
monitor.setTextScale(1)
repeat 
  term.clear()  -- Moved to start of loop to handle case where cursor is somewhere weird to begin with
  term.setCursorPos( 1, 1 )
  local nTime = os.time()
  print( "The time is "..textutils.formatTime( nTime, false ) )
  if nTime < 18 and nTime > 6 then
	    print("Have a good day!")
  else
	    print("Have a good night!")
  end
  sleep(1)
until nil

Well, you're not printing to the monitor.

Try

monitor.print(...)

Edit: Naw, that doesn't work :D/>/>

Try using shell.run

You need to use the monitor methods, described here.

You didn't use term.redirect(). print() outputs to the current term target, which you set with term.redirect.

Yes, term.redirect is also a valid way to do this. But given that you want to have a relatively static display with only specific elements being updated, the monitor methods provide functions that are specific to that task and more efficient than updating the entire screen. That will also leave the terminal screen itself free to display its "normal" output while running your program.

ChunLing, on 17 October 2012 - 05:30 PM said:

Yes, term.redirect is also a valid way to do this. But given that you want to have a relatively static display with only specific elements being updated, the monitor methods provide functions that are specific to that task and more efficient than updating the entire screen. That will also leave the terminal screen itself free to display its "normal" output while running your program.

These things would only be drawbacks to incorrect usage of terminal redirection, or are not actual issues at all. Both are quite valid methods for writing to the monitor.

Hmm…and term.redirect is probably a faster way to adapt what he's already got.