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Unread 15-03-2010, 14:31
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Re: So, who has a custom dashboard?

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Originally Posted by slavik262 View Post
They didn't completely change it around - that was me being a bit reactionary and frustrated that it changed when I went to test it. The user data used to be in the following order: User string (as in a string of text you could add), Error string, and then the rest of the user data. This is in contrast to the current setup with high-priority data, then the error string, then the low-priority data.
The primary change was to rename the fields. Because user strings and user data are both just variable size data fields, we didn't think they should be named as though they would only work in those ways. Since the real difference was the priority of each field wrt to the error strings, we decided to name it as such. Then on the robot, we made it easier to send either strings or packed data to either field. Make sense?

What was the practical difference that impacted your code?

-Joe