Advanced Monitor

Advanced Monitor
Item ID	ComputerCraft:CC-Peripheral
Damage Value	4
Peripheral?	Yes- Term (API)

The Advanced Monitor is a Monitor that has mouse (as 'punches') support, and can use the Color API for screen colors. They resemble the traditional computer console, but are golden coloured to match their crafting recipe. By default, an advanced monitor has a resolution of 7 pixels horizontally by 5 pixels horizontally, but this can be increased by using the monitor API and combining monitors (see explanation on the resolution page).

Crafting

Using an Advanced Monitor

The Advanced Monitor behaves exactly the same as the standard Monitor - except the Advanced Monitor is able to render text with a foreground and background color.

The Advanced Monitor introduces two new methods: monitor.setTextColor(color) and monitor.setBackgroundColor(color). These functions allow you to draw text with a specific foreground and background color. Please note that both spellings of the word color are accepted.

To use an Advanced Monitor, you need to either call a method directly using peripheral.call(), or, wrap the monitor using the Peripheral API. Wrapped monitors provide all functions listed in the Term API, with the exception of monitor.setTextScale(size), which is native to monitors only.

For this example, we have an Advanced Monitor connected to the top of our Computer:

-- Immediately invoke a method without wrapping
peripheral.call( "top", "write", "Hello World!" )

-- You can also "wrap" the peripheral side to a variable:
local monitor = peripheral.wrap( "top" )
monitor.write( "Hello World!" )

History

ComputerCraft Blocks and Items
Blocks
Computer	Advanced Computer	Command Computer	Disk Drive
Monitor	Advanced Monitor	Printer	Turtle
Wireless Modem	Ender Modem	Wired Modem	Networking Cable
Items
Pocket Computer	Advanced Pocket Computer	Floppy Disk	Printed Page
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