Wired Console Screen

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Wiremod Tool

Function:	Creates a screen for use with the High-speed wire system (CPU chip) or Expression 2
Primary fire:	Spawns screen
Secondary fire:	No action
Reload:	No action
Notes:	Uses hi-speed memory, see below for details.

Allows messages to be shown using the CPU chip or expression chip (with some difficulty).

Primary fire creates a screen.

Char - The Ascii code of the character you wish to write at the current XY position on the screen.
CharParam - The background/forground color of the character.
CharX - X position of the cursor.
CharY - Y position of the cursor.
Clk - On/Off

Screens have min/max pixel addresses: 0 - 29 for X (horizontal), 0 - 17 for Y (vertical)

Address Information

Address	Contents
Even # - 0,2,4...	Character displayed.
Odd # - 1,3,5...	Parameters - LBBBFFF. L is nonzero to make this character flash. BBB is background colour, one digit each for red, green and blue. FFF is background colour, same format.
2031	Low shift column
2032	High shift column
2033	Low shift row
2034	High shift row
2035	Charset, always 0
2036	Brightness (-127..127)
2037	Shift cells * Obsolete *
2038	Shift rows (number of rows, >0 shift down, <0 shift up)
2039	Clear Row (Written value specifies the row)
2040	Clear Column (Written value specifies the column)
2041	Clear Screen
2042	Background Color (When BG color is 000, it will be replaced by this color.)
2043	Cursor Blink Rate, in seconds
2044	Cursor Size, in percent (.25 = 1/4 of the character height)
2045	Cursor Address
2046	Cursor Enabled (Default = 0)(Confirmation needed)
2047	Clk (Same as Clk input)

Note: Information pulled from this topic.

This display screen can be used with the expression gate 2.

The command to use is: XWL:writeString(S,N,N(,N,N,N)) which you can learn more about on the Expression 2 page Wire_Expression2