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Re: ROBOT C and the LabVIEW Dashboard

As for the dashboard, we have not tested using ROBOTC with the Labview dashboard. I seem to recall it works with the IFI supplied dashboard software.

Please post a link to where I can find the Labview dashboard and I'll take a look at it's ROBOTC compatibility. Do you get the source for the dashboard or just a compiled application?

Per the download: It's not a bug, it's how it was designed. ROBOTC does not send the entire firmware image down every time you load a new program, only when you load the ROBOTC VM firmware. So to make life a little easier than running over to the robot, holding down the PROG button and sending the new program over... you can start/stop programs and send new programs from your computer.

In ROBOTC, a closed digital sensor returns a "1" value, and an open digital sensor returns a "0" value. Hence why you need to use the != when writing your pneumatics shutoff valve code.
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