Monitor

Monitor
Item ID	4094
Damage Value	0
Peripheral?	Yes

The Monitor is a block that can display text on its front side. When several screen blocks are placed on the same plane, it will form a single monitor. It is useful for displaying information at a server spawn, showing a program on the monitor, and even showing the status of an IC2 reactor! (provided you have CcSensors installed)

Recipe

Redirecting Programs to a Monitor

A 2x2 Monitor, connected to a Computer, with a Disk Drive connected.

From the CraftOS shell, type monitor [top|bottom|left|right|front|back] [a-program-name]. For example, typing monitor top hello would show "Hello world." on the top Monitor.

Monitor as a Peripheral

To use a 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.

For this example, we have a 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!")