Thanks to Jon Mittelman (Team #236 the TechnoTicks) for pointing out a problem and testing an update for me! I've now got an update of the FRC Robot Modeling and Simulation Toolkit, and it can be found updated in the previous thread.
Jon also brought to my attention that teams who are downloading or receiving LabVIEW ONLY will need to install the latest version of NI-VISA in order for LabVIEW to be able to access the Serial ports for the Dashboard. If you install the Driver CDs when you install LabVIEW on a PC, or when you install LabVIEW on the Mac, NI-VISA is automatically installed for you - otherwise you need to install it seperately. You can download the latest version of NI-VISA here:
The changes in this update are:
- Corrected the Dashboard Provider to prevent the Serial port reader from hogging 99% of the available CPU on a single-CPU system.
- Added feature to detect presence of the Datasocket Server when launching the Dashboard Provider; if the Datasocket Server is not already running, the Dashboard Provider will auto-launch and auto-minimize the Datasocket Server for you (so you don't have to manually launch the Datasocket Server any more!).
Please continue to use the toolkit, and stay tuned for more updates!
-Danny