paint to monitor

lologarithm, on 09 January 2013 - 12:49 PM said:

I can't find any posts about this and I haven't seen anyone suggest it:

Would it be worthwhile for the monitor API to include a 'drawPixel' method? Standard monitor would simply print a black or white pixel while advanced monitors could take a color.

From what I can tell the only way to 'draw' to a monitor (not just print text) is to use term.redirect(), however this means that you can't output to the computer at the same time.

The reason for this is if you wanted an external touchscreen interface on a monitor and a combined keyboard/touch on the computer itself. I realize I could just have a key combo that switched between both monitor and term to allow both but it seems that it would be pretty cool to do both at once.

mon.setCursorPos(location)
mon.setBackgroundColor(color)
mon.write(" ")

Dlcruz129, on 09 January 2013 - 01:16 PM said:

lologarithm, on 09 January 2013 - 12:49 PM said:

I can't find any posts about this and I haven't seen anyone suggest it:

Would it be worthwhile for the monitor API to include a 'drawPixel' method? Standard monitor would simply print a black or white pixel while advanced monitors could take a color.

From what I can tell the only way to 'draw' to a monitor (not just print text) is to use term.redirect(), however this means that you can't output to the computer at the same time.

The reason for this is if you wanted an external touchscreen interface on a monitor and a combined keyboard/touch on the computer itself. I realize I could just have a key combo that switched between both monitor and term to allow both but it seems that it would be pretty cool to do both at once.

mon.setCursorPos(location)
mon.setTextColor(color)
mon.write(" ")

1lann, on 09 January 2013 - 10:37 PM said:

Dlcruz129, on 09 January 2013 - 01:16 PM said:

lologarithm, on 09 January 2013 - 12:49 PM said:

I can't find any posts about this and I haven't seen anyone suggest it:

Would it be worthwhile for the monitor API to include a 'drawPixel' method? Standard monitor would simply print a black or white pixel while advanced monitors could take a color.

From what I can tell the only way to 'draw' to a monitor (not just print text) is to use term.redirect(), however this means that you can't output to the computer at the same time.

The reason for this is if you wanted an external touchscreen interface on a monitor and a combined keyboard/touch on the computer itself. I realize I could just have a key combo that switched between both monitor and term to allow both but it seems that it would be pretty cool to do both at once.

mon.setCursorPos(location)
mon.setTextColor(color)
mon.write(" ")

*mon.setBackgroundColor