Simple Crosshair

[hsekhon27]

Originally Posted by Greg McKaskle

The first step is to open the Getting Started Window of LabVIEW. It is up when you first launch and it is available from the View menu. Create a project based on the Dashboard template.

When built, that code will create the same thing as the initial installation.

There are a couple ways to add crosshairs. One, go to the panel, right click in open space and choose lines from the decoration palette.Place and size the lines, color them if you need to. You could use rectangles if you wanted thicker lines.

Greg McKaskle

After I create a dashboard project, how do I deploy it?

[Rogue Leader]

Originally Posted by hsekhon27

After I create a dashboard project, how do I deploy it?

If I'm correct, you would open a program called the "FRC Driver's Station" once your computer is connected to the robot, Once that's open you would also launch a separate program called "FRC Dashboard," although I think the Driver's Station would open up both.Then launch the cRIO Robot Project, then deploy it (from RobotMain). You need to launch these in order to run the robot, so I hope I helped you in some way.

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by hsekhon27

After I create a dashboard project, how do I deploy it?

From the Project Explorer window

Build Specifications -> FRC PC Dashboard right-click and choose Build

It's going to put the new Dashboard in the project folder under builds. Something like:

My Documents\LabVIEW Data\builds\FRC Dashboard Project\FRC PC Dashboard

You can test it by running it from there, but for competition it'll need to get copied to the folder C:\Program File\FRC Dashboard

There are several common variations:

1. You can change the Destination Directory under Properties for the build specification. That will automatically put your Dashboard in the FRC Dashboard folder.
2. You can change where the Driver Station looks for the Dashboard program. That's defined in an ASCII file located at: C:\Users\Public\Documents\FRC\FRC DS Data Storage.ini (shouldn't be edited while the Driver Station app is running).

[MAldridge]

assuming you do dev on a separate computer, you just need to copy the three files that the build will spit out into the dashboard folder on your driver station.

If memory servers, its just in the x86 programs folder.

[hsekhon27]

Thank you!!

[Gary Bonner]

Is there a way to disable the snap-to-grid when drawing lines on the panel?

[Greg McKaskle]

Hit the <g> key to toggle it

Greg McKaskle