Beta Teams: SmartDashboard 2.0

[byteit101]

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

What do you guys think of SmartDashboard 2.0 (or is it SmartDashboard FX, or SFX?).

Main developer here, and even I don't know what to call it. I first thought of 2.0, but then somebody said the current version was 2.0 so it should be 3.0. To avoid taking a stance until we could figure it out, I called the repo SFX because it used JavaFX, however we never really figured it out. Jenkins is 3.0 for the old SVN repo, 2.0 for the current git repo, and I usualy call it sfx

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

Any issues teams should be aware of?
Did anyone try to make any custom widgets or plugins? Was it hard to learn JavaFX? Was there any documentation for making custom widgets or plugins?

Unfortunatly I need to do this as there is not much documetation on it. Fairly simple as you just need to implment an interface (Control) and I already have examples in Java, JRuby, and FXML.
EDIT: https://usfirst.collab.net/sf/wiki/d...CustomControls

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

Was the camera viewer more stable then the original SmartDashboard. Did anyone do any vision processing?

Vision processing is not built in (yet) but it should be trivial to make a custom control to do it.

For the beta testers, I'll throw out another question: Was Java 7 required for the new tools? It looks like some of the latest development JARs won't currently execute using Java 6.[/quote]
Correct, sfx requires JavaFX 2.2, which is bundled with 7u6, however if you are on Windows, you can supposedly get it to run with 6. We have not tried this.