FMS enabling sequence?

[Jared Russell]

Originally Posted by Thad House

Based on the last time I looked in the Java code, it will run auto init, then the next packet run auto periodic. So unless you are starting your sequence in auto init, it wont run motors until it gets a second enabled packet.

I do not think this is currently the case in Java (for IterativeRobot at least). It does check for the new data flag (via nextPeriodReady()), but this flag is not cleared after calling autonomousInit(), so autonomousPeriodic() should be invoked on the first packet