Deploying Code...

[Alan Anderson]

If you're using LabVIEW and trying to "Deploy" code, you're doing it wrong. There are legitimate reasons to use "Deploy", but I can't think of any that would be of use to an FRC team.

It takes only about ten seconds to send a LabVIEW program to the robot using "Run as Startup". Doing the "Build" beforehand can be several minutes, but it doesn't interfere with anyone running the robot. You don't even need to have the robot connected, or even present, to "Build" the code.

When you're doing interactive development/debug sessions by "Run"ning the Robot Main vi, sending all the code to the robot does take about the same amount of time as compiling it with "Build", but only once at the beginning of the process. Thereafter, it is only a few seconds to send only the changed code and run it again.