cRIO simulator

[DaveFrederick]

There appears to be a new CRIO simulator available.

Has anyone gotten the FrcSimulatorClient-full-0.1a.jar to work?
Does anyone have documentation?

http://sourceforge.net/projects/frcsimulator/

Dave Frederick, Manassas VA

[BornaE]

Originally Posted by DaveFrederick

There appears to be a new CRIO simulator available.

Has anyone gotten the FrcSimulatorClient-full-0.1a.jar to work?
Does anyone have documentation?

http://sourceforge.net/projects/frcsimulator/

Dave Frederick, Manassas VA

I was a CSA(Control System Adviser) this year. that tool is used by the FTAs and CSAs to confirm the field functionality and troubleshooting. It only simulates a robot from the FMS comms point of view and not much else.

[BigJ]

One could conceivably use a Proxy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_pattern) to abstract WPILib from the actual code, allowing a mock implementation with GUI/output to be set up in its place while using the same calls and method signatures. However, you'd have to make sure everything you're using is covered by the proxy (which can be a lot of work).

I guess I've never thought about it -- would using the same package names in a mock implementation be bad form? I suppose it's not a big deal if released under the same license as the original. It sure would make it easier on the proxy (otherwise some configuration file would have to be set up, or the code in the proxy would have to be changed when building differently).

[techhelpbb]

Read one of my first posts on this forum as linked here:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...231#post981231

That has not been updated in quite some time and the students that wrote most of it have moved on.

Perhaps you'll find some value in it.

[Spectare]

Originally Posted by DaveFrederick

There appears to be a new CRIO simulator available.

Has anyone gotten the FrcSimulatorClient-full-0.1a.jar to work?
Does anyone have documentation?

http://sourceforge.net/projects/frcsimulator/

Dave Frederick, Manassas VA

I'm one of the ones working on that, it's in the very early stages and can only really be used to verify that code you've written works (to some degree). We do plan to add a gui display of the robot eventually.

As the wiki on the website says, just run `java --classpath FrcSimulatorClient-xx.xxx.jar:YourJarNameOrPathToClassFiles net.sourceforge.frcsimulator.Client --gui -s your.class.package.and.name`

We have changed the command line arguments in the svn(dev) version after developing a class to handle them, reading the doc within the code should help alot. (once we figure out a good way to post the javadoc, we'll do that, until then you can read the code or generate it yourself).