Teams happy with Wind River Workbench?

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Originally Posted by Pancake

Also, the remote console feature for the cRIO is simply amazing - I finally discovered that feature the two weeks before the end of building the robot.

The console has always been very problematic for our team -- there seems to be a tendency to kill the program's response time if you send too much to the console, and the output always seems to be delayed also. Same with writing to files on the cRio

However, what is *really* amazing is the DriverStationLCD class, which allows you to print output to the DriverStation. We've implemented a set of maintenance/diagnostic related routines using a menu system that uses the LCD for output and a thumbwheel and switch on the DS for input. We also have it setup where there are multiple different ways to configure the joysticks (driving according to the robot direction, driving according to the field position, etc) using a thumbwheel switch, and having it output the currently selected control setup and the robot heading relative to the field has been quite useful.

Originally Posted by Pancake

However, a frustration of mine was not being able to separate header files and C++ files, like in Visual Studio

I'm not sure what you're talking about. The C++ compiler supports using header files and C++ files. Just because the default demo doesn't come like that, doesn't mean you can't do it.