Field Control / Scoring Support Systems

[aaeamdar]

Finally it's up! (Much rejoicing?) We'll see where this goes.

Steps to get it:
1. Go to www.team1719.org
2. Click on "Library" (navigation bar)
3. Click on FMSHelper to download it.
4. Unzip it
5. Read the readme file to find out what to do next.

If you're actually downloading this I would really appreciate a heads-up just so I can know that people are using it - not required of course! You can either post here or e-mail me. My contact info is in the readme.


Suggestions/comments quite welcome!

-Paul

[Chief Pride]

In-case anyone uses Chrome, your drop down menus don't work.

Use this link: http://www.team1719.org/lib.html

[aaeamdar]

Originally Posted by Chief Pride

In-case anyone uses Chrome, your drop down menus don't work.

Use this link: http://www.team1719.org/lib.html

Thanks for the headsup about Chrome - I knew that they were broken in Firefox, but hey, they work in Internet Explorer! (Lame!) The site is generally in somewhat poor repair (my fault, kind of).

[aaeamdar]

Version 0.2 is out!

(Look at that, it took me a month to go from 0.0 to 0.1 but just three days to go from 0.1 to 0.2 - see what we can accomplish when we don't slack off?)

(From the readme)

Added features:
-Increased documentation dramatically - every method should be documented
in the javadoc
-Bad situations are handled much better. Putting in an invalid filename
or an invalid number (e.g. "a") will no longer crash the program - it'll
just ask you for a valid one
-Constant values have been moved to a config.ini file, which will allow
these to be "dynamic" constants easily change-able by the user. More to
come with this later.
-Surrogate status should now be handled correctly rather than ignored

Planned for future versions:
-Much more testing: I hope to try/catch basically everything, so the
program in theory will never crash (even though it's constantly backing
itself up anyway), and also just plain bugs need to be eliminated
-Better front-end/GUI: there might eventually be a real GUI for this
project; we'll see. I do plan to still have it be a stand-alone run from
the command prompt if necessary though (so if the GUI fails you have the
command prompt)
-Better documentation: right now documentation maybe is not helpful.
I need feedback about the documentation; tell me whether it is
understandable or not.