queueEvent for Computer peripheral

I'd like to see a method added to the peripheral that is the computer that allows me to queue and event. At the moment the closest you can get is using a startup program that reads messages off of rednet and queues them. You could probably automatically do this by having a turtle place a disc next to the computer and reboot it, but I still feel this should just be a part of the already-existing peripheral.

Nah. Tell me how you'd read that event on the other side, without an already existing program?

Cloudy, on 07 January 2013 - 11:58 PM said:

Nah. Tell me how you'd read that event on the other side, without an already existing program?

Perhaps you have one running and you, say, want a mining database turtle to update its program from the master computer

Cloudy, on 07 January 2013 - 11:58 PM said:

Nah. Tell me how you'd read that event on the other side, without an already existing program?

Perhaps some external peripheral keyboard would send user input without additional driver.

immibis, on 08 January 2013 - 12:49 AM said:

Cloudy, on 07 January 2013 - 11:58 PM said:

Nah. Tell me how you'd read that event on the other side, without an already existing program?

Perhaps you have one running and you, say, want a mining database turtle to update its program from the master computer

Then use a floppy disk to communicate. Either way, hacks like this aren't going to happen - the closest you'll get is when we finally implement wired rednet.

Cloudy, on 08 January 2013 - 04:35 AM said:

immibis, on 08 January 2013 - 12:49 AM said:

Cloudy, on 07 January 2013 - 11:58 PM said:

Nah. Tell me how you'd read that event on the other side, without an already existing program?

Perhaps you have one running and you, say, want a mining database turtle to update its program from the master computer

Then use a floppy disk to communicate. Either way, hacks like this aren't going to happen - the closest you'll get is when we finally implement wired rednet.

so then, I guess I'll just have to install a hidden startup directory on the host computer that listens to rednet and converts what it receives in to events

… why would you need to do that? If you have code running on the computer you can do whatever you want, without hacking around with events.