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[Waitdev_]

i wanna make a terminal scrolling thing to show items in a table, but how do i do that?
for an example

table1 = {"item1","item2","item3"}
function scroll(table)
--scroll through items on a table
end
scroll(table1)

that will output

item1 | item2 | item3 | item1 | item2 | item3 | ite

and continue scrolling like that.

[Lupus590]

function scroll(tab) --#table is a global variable, so I will use tab
  start.x, start.y = term.getCursorPosition() --#this is in 1.74 only (I think). An alternative is to pass these as parameters. Also I may be getting the function names slightly wrong
  for i, #tab do
	term.setCursorPosition(unpack(start))
	print(tab[i]) --#this may leave some leftover characters from the previous string
	--#a solution to above comment would be to print spaces till this combined string is the same length as the longest one in your table
	sleep(1000)--#wait one second so we can see it
  end--#for loop
end--#function

Edited by Lupus590, 03 July 2015 - 11:23 AM.

[Waitdev_]

didn't work :/
i'm using CC 1.73

Edited by Wait_, 03 July 2015 - 11:44 AM.

[Waitdev_]

nvm, i found out a way to do it

[Lupus590]

try this, also I did say in the other one that some of the function calls may be wrong (the wiki helps when you use it)

function scroll(tab) --#table is a global variable, so I will use tab
  start.x, start.y = term.getCursorPos() --#this is in 1.74 only (I think). An alternative is to pass these as parameters.
  for i, #tab do
		term.setCursorPos(unpack(start))
		print(tab[i]) --#this may leave some leftover characters from the previous string
		--#a solution to above comment would be to print spaces till this combined string is the same length as the longest one in your table
		sleep(1000)--#wait one second so we can see it
  end--#for loop
end--#function

edit:

Edited by Lupus590, 03 July 2015 - 12:44 PM.

[TheOddByte]

Lupus590, on 03 July 2015 - 12:44 PM, said:

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Just want to point out that in both of your code-snippets you put this

sleep( 1000 )

That wouldn't sleep 1 second, it would sleep 1000 seconds, remember that it works differently in ComputerCraft

[Lupus590]

TheOddByte, on 04 July 2015 - 10:43 PM, said:

Lupus590, on 03 July 2015 - 12:44 PM, said:

- snip -

Just want to point out that in both of your code-snippets you put this

sleep( 1000 )

That wouldn't sleep 1 second, it would sleep 1000 seconds, remember that it works differently in ComputerCraft

oh yeah, opps

[meigrafd]

Wait_, on 03 July 2015 - 12:41 PM, said:

nvm, i found out a way to do it />

How?