SmartDashboard Class Problems

[fsilberberg]

That is absolutely not true. See here: http://wpilib.screenstepslive.com/s/...-robot-program. The example is in Java but the equivalent C++ will work From your example:

SmartDashboard::PutNumber("Pot Angle", angle);

That will show up on the SmartDashboard as a number, and you can change it to other types of displays such as a graph over time and other widgets, as seen here: http://wpilib.screenstepslive.com/s/...anual-id=26401.