Virtual Driver Station

[Dave Flowerday]

Originally Posted by Kingofl337

I found two bugs in the .5 version of the Virtual DS software. After detecting my robot it displayed the team number as 0111!?

Yup, oops, sorry about that. Fixed. Incidentally, I created a cRIO simulator and I did test it with different team numbers, but now realized that my simulator didn't verify the correct team number was being received . Good catch.

When I plugged in a Logitech Dual Action GamePad and started the software it gave an error and would not detect the game pad.

Yeah, I saw this on Thursday night when another mentor fired it up on his Vista laptop (I only have XP machines and it doesn't happen on those). It's not a defect in my code - it's in the wxWidgets library that's used. I'll need to look into how to fix it. However, it doesn't prevent it from working. It actually detects the joystick just fine, it just can't read the name of the stick. So, in the joysticks dropdown you'll see a blank line, which is your joystick. Not ideal but at least it works. I also need to confirm if this happens with all joystick types or just Logitech.

Additionally, I reworked the application focus safety feature. Now, it can detect the spacebar or ESC key even when the VirtualDS does not have focus. So, it no longer disables the robot when you move the mouse out of the window. This is quite an improvement I think. Now, if you go to another window, as soon as you hit space or ESC it will still disable the robot. The downside is it disables any time spacebar is hit - even if you're filling in one of the label fields in the DS. This is a good thing I think, but a little quirky.

New version here:
http://www.pier13.com/projects/frc/virtualds/