# This is a program that takes keyboard input and prints it out ont a card shaped piece of paper using a pen plotter

# Global stuff
import os
import csv
import getch

userText = ["growing","write seven","words onto","a card"]
currentCard = 0
cardHeight = 95
cardWidth = 70
pageHeight = 249
pageWidth = 378
cardX = 0
cardY = pageHeight
lineHeight = 10
locX = 0
locY = 0
newLines = [" "]


#--------------------------------------------------------
# Getting the input from the keyboard one character at a time
# If you want to do stuff one character at a time maybe use getch

print("Enter the body line by line. Press ^C then enter to cancel")
os.system('echo "IN;" > /dev/ttyUSB0')
os.system('echo "SC0,379,0,250,2;" > /dev/ttyUSB0')
# os.system('echo "DT#,1;" > /dev/ttyUSB0')
    
#--------------------------------------------------------
# Sneakily saving it maybe to a txt file for alternative documentation
def fileWrite(char):
    with open('the-record.txt', 'a') as file:
        file.write(char)
        file.close()
        
while 1:
    char = getch.getch()
    if char == 13:
        os.system('echo "LB' + chr(3) + ';" > /dev/ttyUSB0')    
        fileWrite(char)
    else:
        os.system('echo "LB' + char + chr(3) + ';" > /dev/ttyUSB0')
        fileWrite(char)
    
# os.system('echo "#;" > /dev/ttyUSB0')