Command Based Programming

[nathanzentner08]

Im assuming that the command based programming is more even based programming. Create a command, associate it to a JoystickButton and when the button is clicked, the command is run.

I have put printlns in all methods, and am clicking the joystickbutton but nothing is printing.

I have even ran the start on the command, but it is not getting into the execute, or initialize for that matter.

I have also added it to a group and started the group, but nothing.

Ideas?

[AlexBrinister]

Could you post your code?

Alex Brinister

[BradAMiller]

If you wrote the code by hand (rather than RobotBuilder generated) make sure that you are calling Scheduler.run() in the TeleopPeriodic method like this:
public void teleopPeriodic() {
Scheduler.getInstance().run();
}
That's what actually causes the commands to run each iteration.

[BLUEBELL]

Would I need to do that with the iterative robot code?

[Fauge7]

stick to command based its much easier to manage.

[BLUEBELL]

But if I was going to use iterative would I need the Scheduler.getInstance().run();

[Ben Wolsieffer]

Command based programming is based off of iterative. Instead of putting your code in the xxxPeriodic() methods, you call "Scheduler.getInstance().run();" in them and put your code in commands.

Look at the command based example to see how this is supposed to be done.