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Re: Custom Dashboards and the Driver Station Software

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Originally Posted by Greg McKaskle View Post
I'm still confused. Does one launch of the DS launch two instances of the dashboard, or simply launch one more? In my test, I see one more.

Greg McKaskle
If the DS is launching "one more," that means some other mechanism launched the first, right? It's unclear to me why there are two different ways to start the same program, with both enabled in the system. If the DS is explicitly launching the second, how and why was the first started? Can one of these launch mechanisms be disabled without breaking the other?

If it's indeed by design, that makes it a specific requirement for a custom dashboard that it contain logic to handle redundant instances. Certainly doable, but again, if the intent is to support custom components here, it's good to be clear about such things.