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Originally Posted by Tom Line
From whom did you receive your information regarding FIRST's/NI's intentions about the usage of the driver station as a programming laptop?
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Pure guessing. Sorry if it looked like I had inside info; it was only from what see and read. The first year it came out weren't there many questions here on Chief Delphi about using the classmate for a programming computer? Honestly, it's been years ago when the classmate came out, so I don't remember if there was the general assumption that it was a "driver station only".
Also, to make the distinction, it is a classmate (computer) to be used as a driver station (a program) and for programming (another program), not a driver station for programming. My computer here at work is also a driver station, not that I drive robots while I draft plans.
I'm sorry also to
phynix for derailing the question. My Windows programming skills are minimal, but I would think adding a program to intercept the spacekey seems to me would make more problems than solve them. A quick search online did find similar questions and answers for "intercept key", and there are also programs out there that convert keys to different uses.
I'm also curious that the space key stops the robot even when the driver station program does not have the focus. Not that I doubt you, but that is rather "grabby" of the DS, and the original intention (ha!) of Windows. I'll have to try that. (We use LabVIEW so spacekey use is minimal.)
My only suggestion would be to build a little cardboard box to cover the spacekey, and make one of
these to use as a spacekey. Though would the DS intercept it?
Maybe in the long run,
phynix, you should get a separate computer.