Beta Teams: SmartDashboard 2.0

[Ipiano]

Based on your testing, are you planning to use it this season?
We WERE planning to use it, but in the final release the RobotPreferences widget(which didn't work well, but could have been improved) was removed, and that's something we use heavily to define our autonomous. If we can find a workaround, we will use the dashboard.

What was your favorite feature(s)?
I really liked the ability to rewind the data, but it's a little buggy.
Sometime last year the camera feed stopped working, but it seems to work in SFX. I would assume the memory leak was fixed, but I haven't used it much to be able to say for sure.

Any issues teams should be aware of?
If you try to change the settings for what to do when new widgets are added and use a custom rule, then the "x" and close buttons on the settings dialogue stop working

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?
I did not. But last year I did, and unless FX is a LOT different that Java Swing, it's not TOO hard. No, I don't think there was documentation, but I didn't look either.

Was the camera viewer more stable then the original SmartDashboard. Did anyone do any vision processing?
It actually worked, which is more than can be said for the widget last year. It stopped working at some point and we don't know why.

Did anyone try running it on the classmate?
Not me.

Is it stable when running for long periods of time?
I don't know what qualifies as "long periods" but we prefer not to close it because it takes a while to start up(may be an issue with the computer), and we haven't seen it crash yet.


I am of the opinion that an update will be released because there was the option to change placed widgets to different types(as is stated in the online tutorial) and that and the RobotPreferences widget, both very useful features, were removed.