Thread: Monitering C++ Code With A LabVEIW Dashboard
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Re: Monitering C++ Code With A LabVEIW Dashboard
As Alan stated, the LV dashboard displays information it receives from the driver station/robot via the UDP connection. This means that the LV dashboard really doesn't even know what language the robot code is running. The tricky part for the robot code is what is called marshaling. This is taking arbitrary data and flattening it into a byte buffer, then unflattening it on the other side and reconstructing the original data. To make this easier, the example introduces some classes for doing this.

In summary, it is certainly possible, give it a try and ask for help if you get stuck.

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