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Re: Serious bug identified in SmartDashboard/NetworkTables -- robot hangs

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Originally Posted by Joe Ross View Post
It was just SmartDashboard that stopped, except that we needed data from SmartDashboard to function properly. We've been trying to remove those constraints from our code this year, wherever possible.
Interesting. I've been moving more towards putting robot control in the SmartDashboard (well, a custom UI using NetworkTables), because there's a lot you can do with a touchscreen -- in particular, implementing toggle buttons using a UI is much easier than wiring up toggle buttons to attach to the DS I/O. Once the bugs in NetworkTables get ironed out, it should be a pretty good solution, and worked pretty well for us last year despite the bugs.
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