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legotech25

31-01-2009 13:12

Team Color Identification

Hello all,

As far as I understand, we should receive an indicator of what team we're on from the competition port on the Driver's Station. Does anyone know how to access this in our programming code or if this is even possible? (we're using c++)

Thanks,
Sarah

Edit: I found it, but I will leave this posted as a refference for other teams. The Driver Station class contains an enumerated variable called "Alliance" with the values kRed, kBlue, and kInvalid.

Shinigami2057

31-01-2009 13:18

Re: Team Color Identification

You can get your team color by using the DriverStation class:

Code:

DriverStation ds;



if(ds.GetAlliance() == DriverStation::kRed)

  // do something

else if(ds.GetAlliance() == DriverStation::kBlue)

  // do something else

else

  // WPI lib is broken as usual

DtD	31-01-2009 14:33

Re: Team Color Identification

Anyone know a way to trick the robot into thinking it is on red or blue for testing purposes?

~DtD

wt200999

31-01-2009 16:13

Re: Team Color Identification

I wouldn't play with the competition port at all, I would just say use a switch, and see if receiving it from the DS actually works at competition ;)

byteit101

31-01-2009 22:35

Re: Team Color Identification

if you know about classes, create a simple class
(this probably has bugs in it, but illustrates the point)

Code:

class FakeDriverStation :private DriverStation

{

Alliance GetAlliance(){return DriverStation::kRed;}

};



//Code 

//more code

//DriverStation DS;//make sure to uncomment this 

FakeDriverStation DS;//and comment this before competition

switch(DS.GetAlliance())

{

...

as an example

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