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[fanzypantzy]

Is it possible to easily just get the ID of anything currently inside a blood magic altar?

Edited by fanzypantzy, 17 January 2016 - 12:09 AM.

[Bomb Bloke]

Not through vanilla ComputerCraft. OpenPeripheral may allow it. Stick a computer next to an altar, run eg this script on it, see what that tells you.

[KingofGamesYami]

I doubt computercraft alone could do this. However, if OpenPeripherals is available, depending on the version of OpenP and Blood Magic, maybe.

This will give you either a list of methods for the alter (if it's a peripheral), or tell you it's not one (if it's not a peripheral).

local side = "top" --#this should be whatever side the alter is on
if peripheral.isPresent( side ) then
  for k, v in pairs( peripheral.getMethods( side ) do
    print( k )
  end
else
  print( "Not a Peripheral!" )
end

EditNinja'd

Edited by KingofGamesYami, 16 January 2016 - 01:21 AM.

[fanzypantzy]

Alright I thought it first was a little over my head and did it another way. But if I can understand this I can redo some of my script to make the automation much faster

Here are the method I think I will have the most use of:


My questions are:

How do I get the different parts of getInfo() under the blood altar. It returns more than one thing and I would like to be able to call both the capacity and contents separately.
I'm really really new to this and have never coded anything else than a simple sheep farm. How can I get the capacity and do a simple "while capacity > 8000 do" or something similar. And how can I get the contents so I can wait until the right slate is finished. Again as simple as "contents = Bloodmagic:Blankslate" or something like that.

Here is the script I am working in atm, it does all the filtering manually with BC emzuli pipes and gates.

Spoiler

local details = turtle.getItemDetail()
-- Blank Slate variables
local bSlateitemcompare = turtle.getItemCount(2)
local aStoneitemcompare = turtle.getItemCount(1)
local rSlateitemcompare = turtle.getItemCount(3)
local iSlateitemcompare = turtle.getItemCount(4)
local dSlateitemcompare = turtle.getItemCount(5)
local bSlate = 0
local rSlate = 0
local iSlate = 0
local dSlate = 0
local aStone = 0
local maxStack = 64
local minStack = 1
local SlateProcessing = blSlate
-- variable names
-- blank slate = blSlate
-- runic slate = ruSlate
-- imbued slate = imSlate
-- demonic slate = deSlate

function resetVariables()
bSlateitemcompare = turtle.getItemCount(2)
aStoneitemcompare = turtle.getItemCount(1)
rSlateitemcompare = turtle.getItemCount(3)
iSlateitemcompare = turtle.getItemCount(4)
dSlateitemcompare = turtle.getItemCount(5)

bSlate = bSlateitemcompare
rSlate = rSlateitemcompare
iSlate = iSlateitemcompare
dSlate = dSlateitemcompare

aStone = aStoneitemcompare
print("Number of Arcane Stone in inventory: "..aStone)
print("Number of Blank slate in inventory: "..bSlate)
print("Number of Blank slate in inventory: "..rSlate)
print("Number of Blank slate in inventory: "..iSlate)
print("Number of Blank slate in inventory: "..dSlate)
end
function blankslate()
if aStone > minStack then
  if details.name == "Thaumcraft:blockCosmeticSolid" then
   turtle.select(1)
   turtle.drop(1)
  
   if bSlate < maxStack then
    redstone.setBundledOutput("back", colors.red)
    SlateProcessing = blSlate
    print("Making Blank Slate")
   
    while turtle.getItemCount(2) == bSlate do
	 turtle.suckUp()
	 sleep(0.1)
    end
   else
   
    if rSlate < maxStack then
	 redstone.setBundledOutput("back", colors.green)
	 SlateProcessing = ruSlate
	 print("Making Runic Slate")
	
	 while turtle.getItemCount(3) == rSlate do
	  turtle.suckUp()
	  sleep(0.1)
	 end
    else
	
	 if iSlate < maxStack then
	  redstone.setBundledOutput("back", colors.blue)
	  SlateProcessing = imSlate
	  print("Making Imbued Slate")
	 
	  while turtle.getItemCount(4) == iSlate do
	   turtle.suckUp()
	   sleep(0.1)
	  end
	 else
	
	  if dSlate < maxStack then
	   redstone.setBundledOutput("back", colors.yellow)
	   SlateProcessing = deSlate
	   print("Making Demonic Slate")
	  
	   while turtle.getItemCount(5) == dSlate do
	    turtle.suckUp()
	    sleep(0.1)
	   end
	  else
	   dropSlate()
	  end
	 end
    end  
   end 
  
  else
   print("Block is not Arcane Stone")
   error()
  end

  print("Blank slate pulled")
  redstone.setBundledOutput("back", 0)
else
  print("Not enough Arcane Stone or full of Blank Slate")
  stockArcaneStone()
end


end
function stockArcaneStone()
  if aStone < maxStack then
   turtle.turnRight()
   turtle.select(1)
   sleep(0.2)
   turtle.suck(64 - aStone)
   turtle.turnLeft()
   print("Pulled arcane stone")
  else
   print("There is enough arcane stone")
  end
end
function dropSlate()
turtle.turnRight()
if bSlate > minStack then
  turtle.select(2)
  turtle.drop(bSlate - 1)
  print("Pushed blank slate")
end

if rSlate > minStack then
  turtle.select(3)
  turtle.drop(rSlate - 1)
  print("Pushed runic slate")
end

if iSlate > minStack then
  turtle.select(4)
  turtle.drop(iSlate - 1)
  print("Pushed imbued slate")
end

if dSlate > minStack then
  turtle.select(5)
  turtle.drop(dSlate - 1)
  print("Pushed demonic slate")
end
end

while redstone.getInput("left") do
resetVariables()
blankslate()
sleep(0.1)
end

Edited by fanzypantzy, 16 January 2016 - 11:45 PM.

[Ajt86]

It returns a table, so just get the index in the table.

local atable = {
  ["key"] = "Value"
}
print(atable.key)    -- Prints "Value"
print(atable["key"])    -- Prints "Value"

The latter is more useful when Lua could misinterpret the dot notation (spaces or special characters in key). It is also more useful when you're dynamically indexing the table.

[Dragon53535]

It actually returns a NESTED table, which is a table in a table.

local tbl = drive.getInfo()
tbl.contents.amount

will be the numerical value of it's current amount

[fanzypantzy]

Thank you Dragon that solves one part of the question

Could this give me the information about the block inside the blood altar?


The big question is: teach me like I am 5, what is this proxy table thingy?

[Dragon53535]

What does the rest of the statement regarding it say?

[fanzypantzy]

Are you thinking of this?



I mean it's not giving me much to go on to figure out what is in the table or how to get to it:

[Dragon53535]

From what I can see, it's returning something that can't be easily serialized. or it might...

Try running this to see what's in it

textutils.serialize(drive.getAllStacks())

If you get an error, that means that it's probably got a function in it somewhere.
If it does error, we'll work on that next.

I think proxy is negligible right now, since you're referencing the altar you care about anyways, no need for a proxy I assume.

[fanzypantzy]

Does this classify as an error in your books?

[Dragon53535]

Figures... I'm assuming you know how to edit and run files, so make a file and run this:

local side = "left"
local drive = peripheral.wrap(side)
local file = fs.open("tableFile","w")
local function readTable(tbl,previous)
  previous = previous or ""
  for a,v in pairs(tbl) do
	if type(v) == table then
	  readTable(tbl,previous..a..":")
	else
	  file.writeLine(previous..a.." = " .. type(v))
	end
  end
end
readTable(drive.getAllStacks(),"")
file.close()

And then open the tableFile file

Edited by Dragon53535, 17 January 2016 - 12:39 AM.

[fanzypantzy]

Alright the tablefile contains:

1 = table

[Dragon53535]

That's my fault.

local side = "left"
local drive = peripheral.wrap(side)
local file = fs.open("tableFile","w")
local function readTable(tbl,previous)
  previous = previous or ""
  for a,v in pairs(tbl) do
		if type(v) == "table" then --# I forgot the quotes here
		  readTable(tbl,previous..a..":")
		else
		  file.writeLine(previous..a.." = " .. type(v))
		end
  end
end
readTable(drive.getAllStacks(),"")
file.close()

Edited by Dragon53535, 17 January 2016 - 12:46 AM.

[fanzypantzy]

When I ran it this happened. Though I changed the side to front since it is facing forward atm.



But when I put the side back to left it returned 216 which is a blood interface block though. I assume you wanted the side to be the blood altar side.

[Dragon53535]

Another one of my faults

local side = "left"
local drive = peripheral.wrap(side)
local file = fs.open("tableFile","w")
local function readTable(tbl,previous)
  previous = previous or ""
  for a,v in pairs(tbl) do
				if type(v) == "table" then --# I forgot the quotes here
				  readTable(v,previous..a..":") --#I was passing tbl here, which basically did this over and over again, without changing it's result
				else
				  file.writeLine(previous..a.." = " .. type(v))
				end
  end
end
readTable(drive.getAllStacks(),"")
file.close()

Yay for typos and mistakes...

Edited by Dragon53535, 17 January 2016 - 12:52 AM.

[fanzypantzy]

Hehe np. Here is the tablefile:

1:listSources = function
1:getAdvancedMethodsData = function
1:all = function
1:listMethods = function
1:doc = function
1:keys = function
1:basic = function
1:select = function
1:single = function

[Dragon53535]

This looks like it's returning a table that has a peripheral in it. Given this thought, I'd go with:

drive.getAllStacks()[1].listMethods()

I probably should say, I mean plug that back into the lua prompt after wrapping the altar again.

Edited by Dragon53535, 17 January 2016 - 12:57 AM.

[fanzypantzy]

Here we go, everything you are doing is slightly over my head, but I trust you :

[Dragon53535]

I'll just go with probably not this function then.
Just to test though, what do these get you?

drive.getAllStacks()[1].keys()
drive.getAllStacks()[1].listSources()

I'd also check what other methods you can use for the altar.

drive.listMethods()