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Re: Making Debugging Easier

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Originally Posted by dm0ney
any ideas why sometimes IFI Loader can put the RC into program mode and then mysteriously cannot most other times?
The newest version of the master code (version 10) requires that you push the Program button before sending new code. The master code on last year's RC does not have this restriction. At first I thought it was just an idiosyncracy with our new programming computer, but someone from IFI told me that it is indeed a new feature (not a bug, mind you) in version 10. My best guess is that it is intended to make sure that anything you connect to the serial port (like, say, the camera) doesn't accidentally send the data sequence that sets the RC into Program mode and corrupt your code in the middle of a match.
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