Should be easy: iterate through components in table and do something with them

[taeratrin 0]

Hey, Some background first. Minecraft=not newbie; Programming=not newbie; OC = newbie; Lua=newbie

I'm trying to do something that should be relatively simple: turn on a bunch of redstone i/o blocks. 48 in total. I don't want to define these individually, so I thought I could use a table. I tried Molinko's answer here and successfully inserted the ID's in a table. Now, I want to iterate through the table and setOutput for each one.

I am banging my head on a wall. I have tried many different things, but am unable to figure out how to do this without defining a variable for each one.

I have something like:

local component = require("component")
local sides = require("sides")

local rst = {}

for address in component.list('redstone') do
  local r = component.proxy(address)
  table.insert(rst,r)
end

for k,v in pairs(rst) do
  //what do I put here to turn on output for all redstone i/o? assume side is up.
end

I have confirmed that rst has...something?...in it by printing the k/v values, but I also notice that the values don't match the IDs of the blocks. Am I even doing that part right?

Thank you.

[Molinko 43]

What you seem to be collecting in your 'rst' table is component proxies not addresses.. which is ok but not really necessary. Try this..

local component = require("component")
local sides = require("sides")

local rst = {}

for address in component.list('redstone') do
  table.insert(rst, address)
end

for i, address in ipairs(rst) do
  -- same as calling from a proxy but you dont have to store a table..
  -- i.e redstone.setOutput(sides.up, 15)
  component.invoke(address, 'setOutput', sides.up, 15)
end