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LCD library for modders

This library is made for other modders. I wanted to make something very simple to handle LCDs. I designed these helpers using classes so the library code wont never conflit with yours.



The following code will find lcds named or contrained in groups LCDName1, LCDName2 and LCDGroupName and return a list of them (It will warn using Echo if group are not existing/empty and then if it could find find a LCD matching the name. It will return an empty list if it could not find anything) :



You can use the internal buffer to display text (prevent multiple display call to LCD, more performance friendly) :



InitDiplay methods is called in search method. But you can use them to change color or font size.

• public LCDHelper(BasicLibrary basicLibrary, Color defaultFontColor, float defaultSize=2)
  
• void DisplayMessage(string message, List<IMyTextPanel> myTextPanels, bool append = false)
  
• void DisplayMessage(string message, IMyTextPanel myTextPanel, bool append = false)
  
• IMyTextPanel FindFirst()
  
• List<IMyTextPanel> Find(string[] lcdGoupsAndNames) : will return all blocks of type LCD found by names and inside group by their names too (you can mix those in the array)
  
• InitDisplays(List<IMyTextPanel> myTextPanels) : init LCD with the default color and font size
  
• void InitDisplay(IMyTextPanel myTextPanel) : init LCD with the default color and font size
  
• void InitDisplays(List<IMyTextPanel> myTextPanels, Color color, float fontSize)
  
• void InitDisplay(IMyTextPanel myTextPanel, Color color, float fontSize)

Next 4 methods are made to use an internal stringbuffer to output a lot of text and not call display on LCD for each line of text for performance issues :

• void ClearMessageBuffer()
  
• void AppendMessageBuffer(string text)
  
• void AppendMessageBufferFormatted(string text, params object[] args)
  
• void DisplayMessageBuffer(List<IMyTextPanel> myTextPanels)

This library come with another library which adds some handy functions :

• T FindFirstBlockByType<T>() : return the first block of type T it finds (or null if none)
  
• List<T> FindBlocksByNameAndGroup<T>(string[] names, string typeOfBlockForMessage) : will return all blocks of type found by names and inside group by their names too (you can mix those in the array)
  
• AppendFormatted / AppendFormattedNewLine : help with adding formatted text to a stringbuffer
  
• static double GetCurrentTimeInMs() : return number of ms since 1/1/1970

If you use this library please credit me on your workshop creation page. Thanks :)

Don't forget to rate this mod, it helps people to see it and i hope i can help the community focus on more important tasks than writing code to handle finding and writing to LCD.