Swarm is a tutorial and toolkit for offline Computercraft (without http). It aims for dealing with the limitations of http disabled tekkit servers.
- Goal: Copy&paste =============
First goal is to make it possible to copy multiline lua scripts from Windows text editor.
edit rManually type (or copy&paste line by line):
file=fs.open("b","w")
file.write(({...})[1])
file.close()
shell.run("b")or as 1 line
file=fs.open("b","w")file.write(({...})[1])file.close()shell.run("b")Press CTRL,ENTER,CTRL,RIGHT,ENTER
Test. Now you can lua from command line. Copy&paste this input computercraft shell:
r write("Hello!\n")Hello!
Unfortunately you can't use SPACE or ENTER so its not so easy to write full "Hello World!":
Copy&Paste:
r write("Hello"..string.char(32).."World!\n")Hello World!
Let's try to make copypasting more handy
https://github.com/keneo/swarm/blob/master/ScriptMinifyFiddle.md
So now I assume you can copy paste very small programs into Computercraft (via fiddle page).
- Make your files persistant =============================
label set foobar
Computer label set to "foobar"
- 't' DSL for turtle =================
Check the t.lua file source and use https://github.com/keneo/swarm/blob/master/ScriptMinifyFiddle.md to upload it to your turtle. I.e. (really build it yourself with https://github.com/keneo/swarm/blob/master/t.lua and https://github.com/keneo/swarm/blob/master/ScriptMinifyFiddle.md, this line below is outdated)
r shell.run("r","t=turtle;d={[\"f\"]=t.forward,[\"u\"]=t.up,[\"d\"]=t.down,[\"b\"]=t.back,[\"l\"]=t.turnLeft,[\"r\"]=t.turnRight,[\"F\"]=t.dig,[\"U\"]=t.digUp,[\"D\"]=t.digDown};({...})[1]:gsub(\".\",function(c)d[c]()end)")
(Since program is longer than 128 chars, you have to make 2 copypastes.)
Save as 't':
copy b t
Usage: t [code]
Code is a sequence of chars. 1 char = 1 command.
- f - turtle.forward()
- b - turtle.back()
- u - turtle.up()
- d - turtle.down()
- l - turtle.turnLeft()
- r - turtle.turnRight()
- F - turtle.dig()
- U - turtle.digUp()
- D - turtle.digDown()
- First app for t ==================
Lets dig make stairs down of length 5. We need sth like:
UFDf UFDd
UFDf UFDd
UFDf UFDd
UFDf UFDd
UFDf UFDd
So we have to put:
t UFDfUFDdUFDfUFDdUFDfUFDdUFDfUFDdUFDfUFDd
Not very readable isn't.
It would be cool if we could:
t2 5x(UFDf_UFDd)
Or
t2 :M=UFD 5x(MfMd)