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[Noobular]

I was curious if i would be able to use a peripheral to look at everything in the chest,
like everything listed out so i can put them all on a monitor to show everything i have, I know it's possible i've seen it done but i'd like to see if i'd be able to do it with single chest or an ME system...

Purpose: Making an automated shop and that's pretty much the last bit i need.


Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!

[hilburn]

If you have OpenPeripherals then yes, this is doable. However for "remote" chests (ones not adjacent so you are using modems) you will need to use the OpenP Peripheral Proxy block to connect to it. There are also methods to support AE systems, as well as automatically craft and pull items from it

[Noobular]

I was thinking maby trying to make it like a vending machine like setting them up around the areas of the map so i get more people purchasing and selling , then use Enderchest to set it to the specific machine..

[Noobular]

Oh, i didnt realize i didn't say it , i don't know exactly how to use the proxy block along with calling the getInventorySize and stuff like that , Peripheral Functions

[hilburn]

Point the Proxy at the chest, attach a wired modem to the back, right click it to activate. You will get something like "chest_0 connected" appear in chat. That s the peripheral "side" you should wrap to allow you to call the chest methods

[Noobular]

I cant seem to get any of the commands for them to work... I don't exactly know specifically how to make them connected like a monitor nor if the commands are being used right.

[Noobular]

The code is simply this.

local p = "me_drive_0"
p.getTotalItemBytes()

It constantly says it attempts to call nil
Am I supposed to be putting arguments inside the getTotalItemBytes()?

[Dragon53535]

If it's saying attempt to call nil then that means that getTotalItemBytes does not exist, try using

for key, value in pairs(peripheral.getMethods("me_drive_0")) do
  print(key.." "..value)
end

to get the methods you can call

[Dog]

Noobular - you aren't actually wrapping the ME drive as a peripheral.

Change this...

local p = "me_drive_0"

to this...

local p = peripheral.wrap("me_drive_0")

[Noobular]

i tried that before and it still didnt work for what ever reason.

Also dragon, I grabbed someones Show Peripherals program so thats how i got it.

[Dog]

Noobular, on 14 September 2014 - 12:33 AM, said:

i tried that before and it still didnt work for what ever reason.
...

'for what ever reason' doesn't really help us help you - an exact error message would be very helpful. FWIW, what I suggested is the correct way to wrap a peripheral - what you were trying will not work. Are you sure the peripheral you are trying to wrap is actually named "me_drive_0" ?

Dragon may know who's 'Show Peripherals' program you used, but I don't. If correctly wrapping the device (with the correct name) still doesn't work, would you please run his code and tell us what is returned?

Edited by Dog, 14 September 2014 - 12:56 AM.

[Noobular]

Well i guess it seems to be actually running the code without problems... How would i write out the Function: TABLENAME to a text? ...

[Noobular]

This might help, basicly when i press the button and run the CheckItems() function it just doesn't think it exist.

[Noobular]

Crap... I took the picture of the code after the mess up , its actually line 70, Sorry.

After further inspection of the monitor , it writes it out but it just dies after it does...

[Dog]

line 70 is

m.write(slot.name)

I'm guessing that slot.name is not a valid variable name. That would result in the error you are seeing.

[Bomb Bloke]

Or more specifically, that "slot" isn't a table that can be indexed into.

Perhaps if you changed line 69 to check the existence of "slot" instead of "CurrSlot"...

[Dog]

Bomb Bloke, on 14 September 2014 - 09:34 AM, said:

Or more specifically, that "slot" isn't a table that can be indexed into.
...

Thank you for clarifying and correcting me, Bomb Bloke

[Noobular]

Actually... it turns out that when it is going over the catagory.getStackInSlot() it hits a nil then it stops it self, but i changed the code to

function CheckItems(s)
    local InvSize = Catagory.getInventorySize()
for CurrSlot = 1, InvSize-1 do
   local slot = C1.getStackInSlot(CurrSlot)
  if CurrSlot == nil then -- cycling
   m.write("Nothing")
   else
	 m.setCursorPos(1,CurrSlot+2)
   m.write("|"..slot.name)
   m.setCursorPos(25,CurrSlot+2)
   m.write(""..slot.id.."")
   m.setCursorPos(33,CurrSlot+2)
   m.write(""..slot.qty)
    end
end
end

but for some reason it still wont like stop error....

[Dog]

Noobular, on 14 September 2014 - 08:32 PM, said:

Actually... it turns out that when it is going over the catagory.getStackInSlot() it hits a nil then it stops it self, but i changed the code to
...
but for some reason it still wont like stop error....

You need to move your check for nil before your first invocation of the variable, like so...

if CurrSlot == nil then
  m.write("Nothing")
else
  local slot = C1.getStackInSlot(CurrSlot)
  m.setCursorPos(1,CurrSlot+2)
  m.write("|"..slot.name)
  --# rest of code

Edited by Dog, 14 September 2014 - 08:43 PM.

[Noobular]

Current Code :


It's still just ending it self basicly once it hits an empty slot.