Well, I just wasted the last 2 hours trying to design a 7 Segment Display with 8 Digits that takes input from the user (like a keyboard). I made a bad mistake after already cloning the basic, but most important, standard block of code. I know its possible to make one of these, I just don't want to start over lol.
Here's a picture of all that I did:
You see next to the A button is you (a metal ball), and you roll around to the 26 barrels (representing "keys" on a key board) and when you hit one it sends an impulse to 2 different places. One to a counter to determine how many times you've "pressed a key" and another to a state change event which changes the state of an interval trigger to on which sends an impulse to an impulse delay filter (1 Tick delay, this is so the counter can make its calculation before the filters I'm going to mention can compare values with it) which sends an impulse to an impulse splitter which splits the impulse into 8 new impulses each go to a filter which checks to see if that counter mentioned earlier is equal to a value between 1 and 8 (this basically checks to see what "digit" you're on.) and depending on which one it is it sends a new impulse out to another impulse splitter, that splitter is split into up to 7 different impulses which each lead to an Object Position Event that are placed on each segment of the 7 segment display (when these Object Position Events are activated they move a railing forward 0.2 meters so it shows through the large grey rectangle in the picture thus making it visible.).
All of that is basically on one of the barrels, I just grouped them all then copied them all again. That took me maybe 20-30 minutes, the thing that preoccupied me so much was all those red arrows you can see connecting the last impulse splitter to a section on the 7 segment display that corresponds to the current letter. I had to manually assign each of those arrows (yes I'm aware that there is almost definetely a much more efficient way to do this through copying and pasting.), and that is barely half of the total arrows I have to do to reach 8 Digits. I only got that far because I was so cocky I thought that I didn't have to test my creation because I was so sure in my logic that it would work. Lol.
Again, I'm extremely thourough in my threads, but I just like to share information. Also for all I know theres already hundreds of these things, I just haven't searched the track central for them.
Well anyways, I challenge someone else to make a working 7 Segment Display with 8 Digits, or more if you want and can figure out how, that takes user input. (basically a keyboard) it'd be soooo coooool.
sounds like a lot of fun, ill give it a try tomorrow.
I'm positive you'll be able to do it. Its really not too hard to make, its just time consuming.Originally Posted by RickyReb
