SmartDashboard Extension

[mmaunu]

When you launch the dashboard from within the Driver Station, the Driver Station uses an ini file to determine which program to run. This ini file is located in the directory:

    C:\Users\Public\Documents\FRC

(note: the user here is "Public" for all installs)

The name of the ini file is:

FRC DS Data Storage.ini

Open up the file to edit it and change the line with DashboardCmdLine to:

DashboardCmdLine = "java -jar "C:\\Users\\mmaunu\\wpilib\\tools\\SmartDashboard.jar""

(note: be sure to change the user name to something appropriate...not mmaunu)

Inside the Driver Station, on the "Setup" tab, leave the dashboard type to "Default". By default, it will look for the command to run in the ini file.

Your extensions should be installed in the following folder:

C:\Users\mmaunu\SmartDashboard\extensions

(note: change mmaunu again and create the "extensions" folder if there isn't one already)

We create a jar file that contains our extensions and then just save the jar file to the folder above.

Hope this helps.