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Re: Smart Dashboard - What do you think?

I used it earlier today and it worked pretty well. It's nice not to have to deal with labview. It's also *way* nicer than println statements.


Few problems I ran into:

It seemed that there was a maximum number of fields to log, afterwards they were ignored. It's not really a big problem, it would just be nice to see the capabilities documented somewhere. (i.e. does type of data affect? does length of field name?)

Documentation could also be elaborated a bit more. Although I figured it out soon enough, it would have been nice if "SimpleDashboard.init();" was mentioned in the readme. Example code is always good, especially for people who aren't experienced with Java.

Sometimes, when the robot was reprogrammed, a second copy of the fields would show up on the dashboard. Only the new ones were updated.

Aesthetically, it might be good to set up "snapping" for moving the controls on the page around. It could make the dashboard look more professional & as though more than 5 minutes effort was put into it


Overall though, I really like this project. It's so awesome. You have no idea how thankful I am