feature suggestions
 

Now that I've finsished my whitepaper on serial port stuff, I've decided to dig up an old piece of code I wrote at nats. Basically, it's a graphical Windows program to help you program your robot. Using buttons, checkboxes, etc., you can create Relays, Joysticks, Motors, etc w/o any knowledge of PBASIC.

Currently working features include:
PWMS: axis, switch, constant, tank drive options
Relays: axis, switch, constant, pump options
Joysticks: deadzone, digital filters for all four axis.
Sensors: nothing special yet
Limits: All relays and motors can be limited by either digital or analog sensors
Other: supports reversal of individual PWMs.

So my question is, what other features would be useful?\

BTW, if you are interested in source code(Visual C++) or binaries for this, let me know. Both are available.

sure, i'll take the source code, doesn't hurt to see how it works. heck, might be helpful to teach new programmers, before you try to confuse them with the actual code :p. even so, sounds like a cool program.

How about making support for the digital inputs on the oi ports - the joystick buttons or whatever you wire to 'em. Not sure if that was implied by the joysticks or not

Yep, thats in there too. As soon as you create a joystick, regardless of whether you activate any of the axis, the program sets of trig, top, aux1, and aux2.

Source code now available
 

After spending 10 min. creating a site, source code is available here. Be warned, the program is still in an alpha stage, and has a tendency to crash if you give it invalid input (such as an axis control without telling it which axis). This will be fixed within the next few days when I release the final version.

Again, I'm looking for features you think would be useful, both for teaching newbies and for not having to re-write the same code year after year.