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Re: Team 316 2014 Code Release

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Originally Posted by CreativeName55 View Post
That is a really nice looking vision system. One suggestion though, if I may, may be to look into properties, as it looks like you're using SmartDashboard? Properties, such as IntegerProperties and DoubleProperties, allow you to easily change the constants being used without redeploying code. Found out about them, and they are super useful for fixing little quirks in things like vision
Thanks! To clarify, our vision code runs on the Driver Station as a standalone Java app. We do use SmartDashboard, but we decided that keeping our vision code separate from the dashboard allowed for more flexibility. I have been looking into using Java Properties for configuration, but I haven't gotten around to implementing it yet.
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