WebDMA: Tuning your robot via a web interface (C++)

[Greg McKaskle]

I'm not trying to talk you into using LV again. Honestly, I think it is great to get exposure to multiple languages, but I'd like to understand why you decided to throw away your code last year.

As for the web stuff, I'm not certain it is built into the FRC version, but the tools menu should contain a menu item called Web Publishing Tool... This will lead you through a quick wizard that will let you publish your work as a either viewable jpeg updates, or as a web helper plugin that lets you view or take control and manipulate the panel from within a web browser. This tool automatically splits your panel and diagram, leaves the diagram running in one place, and puts the panel on another computer, even in a web browser. The downside is that each client needs to have the plug-in installed.

As you mention, the next, more advanced version of this is to use web services to build your own custom UI that simply invokes diagrams. This is normally done to lighten the communications load or to optimize.

Greg McKaskle