Framework

[just_wondering]

Question: Do we have to use the framework in the competition?

[keehun]

While I don't have an authoritative answer, as long as you conform to all the field communications correctly and things of that nature, you don't have to use the frameworks. But I honestly have no idea why any team would need to do anything of that nature. If the basic framework is too restricting, then play around with the advanced framework..

[just_wondering]

What do you mean by advanced framework?

[just_wondering]

Okay, so we have to open the motors in begin.vi? How would we do that? Do we need to open everything, i.e compressor, joystick, etc... in begin? How would we do that? And if we do that what else would we need to do? Do we need to make references in the auto.vi and the teleop.vi? How do we make these references?

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by just_wondering

What do you mean by advanced framework?

He's referring to one of the two ways to do robot programming in LabVIEW last year. This year, there's just the one style, called "FRC cRIO Robot Project". You don't need to know this, but it most closely resembles last year's Advanced framework. 2009's Basic Framework is not used in 2010.