Advanced Monitor

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The Advanced Monitor is a new, improved version of the monitor. It has the ability to show coloured text and programs on the screen. It is also golden colored on it's sides, similar to the Advanced Computer. For available colors, see Colors API.

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Using an Advanced Monitor

See Peripheral (API) for more details.

To use an Advanced Monitor, you need to call a method using the Peripheral API. This is one example:

peripheral.call("side", "function", var1, var2, ...)

For example:

peripheral.call("top", "write", "Hello World!")

You can also "wrap" the peripheral side to a variable:

local monitor = peripheral.wrap("top")

Now, you can call functions that way.

monitor.write("Hello World!")

There are two new functions (four including the british-spelled color (colour)):

setTextColor((color))

setBackgroundColor((color))