Iterative Project

[tuXguy15]

I have a question about simple project. I was messing around with it and how do you start stuff when the robot is initialized. Kind of like how iterative has RobotInit, TeleopInit, and AutonomousInit. Does the simple robot project have something like this?

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by Zer0

I have a question about simple project. I was messing around with it and how do you start stuff when the robot is initialized. Kind of like how iterative has RobotInit, TeleopInit, and AutonomousInit. Does the simple robot project have something like this?

SimpleRobot leaves it up to the programmer to determine how to structure things. The most common way is to put your own while loop in operatorControl. Anything before the while loop is run at the beginning, just like TeleopInit. See https://wpilib.screenstepslive.com/s...ot-programming

[tuXguy15]

Do I just put the Drive system in the while loop to update it or everything.

[Peragore]

Originally Posted by Zer0

Do I just put the Drive system in the while loop to update it or everything.

Yes.

The standard usage of Simple Robot is something like this:

public OperatorControl(){
   while (isOperatorControl() and isEnabled()){
    try {
         Thread.sleep(10L);
    } catch (Exception e){
       e.printStackTrace();
    }
   //insert code here, to be called every time through the while loop
   }
}

[tuXguy15]

Ok thanks i will start working on this more

[Arhowk]

Originally Posted by Peragore

Yes.

The standard usage of Simple Robot is something like this:

public OperatorControl(){
   while (isOperatorControl() and isEnabled()){
    try {
         Thread.sleep(10L);
    } catch (Exception e){
       e.printStackTrace();
    }
   //insert code here, to be called every time through the while loop
   }
}

IterativeRobot should be used because of its usage data reporting and management. Using SimpleRobot for anything else than custom robot structures really shouldn't be used. Using thread sleeps shouldn't really be needed because IterativeRobot waits for new data from the robot which is the only time data should really need to be processed.

I'd also recommend looking into Command-based, it may look hard at first but once you get the hang of it its so much neater and easier to write.