Dashboard-Driver Station Help Please

[sircedric4]

Ok I am desperate now, I just tried uncommenting the code in the dashboard format and I still don't get anything on my driver station dashboard. Can someone please help me.

I have tried the same code that you saw in the first post above, and I also tried this code for my myRobot.cpp.

#include "WPILib.h"
#include "DashboardDataFormat.h"

/**
 * This is a demo program showing the use of the RobotBase class.
 * The SimpleRobot class is the base of a robot application that will automatically call your
 * Autonomous and OperatorControl methods at the right time as controlled by the switches on
 * the driver station or the field controls.
 */ 
class RobotDemo : public SimpleRobot
{
	RobotDrive myRobot; // robot drive system
	Joystick leftstick; // left joystick
	Joystick rightstick; //right joystick
	DashboardDataFormat DataPlease;
	
public:
	RobotDemo(void):
		myRobot(1, 3, 2, 4),	// PWMs for drive
				//1,3 - Left Motors
				//2,4 - Right Motors
		leftstick(1),		// Left Joystick.
		rightstick(2)		// Right Joystick.
	{
		myRobot.SetInvertedMotor(RobotDrive::kFrontLeftMotor, false);
		myRobot.SetInvertedMotor(RobotDrive::kFrontRightMotor, false);
		myRobot.SetInvertedMotor(RobotDrive::kRearLeftMotor, false);
		myRobot.SetInvertedMotor(RobotDrive::kRearRightMotor, false);
		GetWatchdog().SetExpiration(0.1);
	}

	/**
	 * Drive left & right motors for 2 seconds then stop
	 */
	void Autonomous(void)
	{
		GetWatchdog().SetEnabled(false);
		myRobot.Drive(0.5, 0.0); 	// drive forwards half speed
		Wait(2.0); 				//    for 2 seconds
		myRobot.Drive(0.0, 0.0); 	// stop robot
	}

	/**
	 * Runs the motors with tank steering. 
	 */
	void OperatorControl(void)
	{
		
		// Create and set up a camera instance. first wait for the camera to start
		// if the robot was just powered on. This gives the camera time to boot.
		//Wait(10.0);
		//printf("Getting camera instance\n");
		//AxisCamera &camera = AxisCamera::getInstance();
		//printf("Setting camera parameters\n");
		//camera.writeResolution(k320x240);
		//camera.writeBrightness(0);

		// set watchdog
		GetWatchdog().SetExpiration(1.0);
		GetWatchdog().SetEnabled(true);
		
		while (IsOperatorControl())
		{
			GetWatchdog().Feed();
			myRobot.TankDrive(leftstick, rightstick); // drive

			// send the dashboard data associated with the I/O ports
			DataPlease.sendIOPortData();
			
			Wait(0.005);				// wait for a motor update time
		}
	}
};

START_ROBOT_CLASS(RobotDemo);

And to top things off here is my DashboardDataFormat.cpp code where I uncommented the things that should have polled the cRio I thought.

#include "DashboardDataFormat.h"

void sendVisionData() {
	Dashboard &dash = DriverStation::GetInstance()->GetHighPriorityDashboardPacker();
	dash.AddCluster(); // wire (2 elements)
	{
		dash.AddCluster(); // tracking data
		{
			dash.AddDouble(1.0); // Joystick X
			dash.AddDouble(135.0); // angle
			dash.AddDouble(3.0); // angular rate
			dash.AddDouble(5.0); // other X
		}
		dash.FinalizeCluster();
		dash.AddCluster(); // target Info (2 elements)
		{
			dash.AddCluster(); // targets
			{
				dash.AddDouble(100.0); // target score
				dash.AddCluster(); // Circle Description (5 elements)
				{
					dash.AddCluster(); // Position (2 elements)
					{
						dash.AddDouble(30.0); // X
						dash.AddDouble(50.0); // Y
					}
					dash.FinalizeCluster();
				}
				dash.FinalizeCluster(); // Position
				dash.AddDouble(45.0); // Angle
				dash.AddDouble(21.0); // Major Radius
				dash.AddDouble(15.0); // Minor Radius
				dash.AddDouble(324.0); // Raw score
			}
			dash.FinalizeCluster(); // targets
		}
		dash.FinalizeCluster(); // target Info
	}
	dash.FinalizeCluster(); // wire
	dash.Finalize();
}

void sendIOPortData() {
	Dashboard &dash = DriverStation::GetInstance()->GetLowPriorityDashboardPacker();
	dash.AddCluster();
	{
		dash.AddCluster();
		{ //analog modules 
			dash.AddCluster();
			{
				for (int i = 1; i <= 8; i++) {
					dash.AddFloat((float) AnalogModule::GetInstance(1)->GetAverageVoltage(i));
					//dash.AddFloat((float) i * 5.0 / 8.0);
				}
			}
			dash.FinalizeCluster();
			dash.AddCluster();
			{
				for (int i = 1; i <= 8; i++) {
					dash.AddFloat((float) AnalogModule::GetInstance(2)->GetAverageVoltage(i));
				}
			}
			dash.FinalizeCluster();
		}
		dash.FinalizeCluster();

		dash.AddCluster();
		{ //digital modules
			dash.AddCluster();
			{
				dash.AddCluster();
				{
					int module = 4;
					dash.AddU8(DigitalModule::GetInstance(module)->GetRelayForward());
					dash.AddU8(DigitalModule::GetInstance(module)->GetRelayReverse());
					dash.AddU16((short)DigitalModule::GetInstance(module)->GetDIO());
					//dash.AddU16((short) 0xAAAA);
					dash.AddU16((short)DigitalModule::GetInstance(module)->GetDIODirection());
					//dash.AddU16((short) 0x7777);
					dash.AddCluster();
					{
						for (int i = 1; i <= 10; i++) {
							dash.AddU8((unsigned char) DigitalModule::GetInstance(module)->GetPWM(i));
							//dash.AddU8((unsigned char) (i-1) * 255 / 9);
						}
					}
					dash.FinalizeCluster();
				}
				dash.FinalizeCluster();
			}
			dash.FinalizeCluster();

			dash.AddCluster();
			{
				dash.AddCluster();
				{
					int module = 6;
					dash.AddU8(DigitalModule::GetInstance(module)->GetRelayForward());
					dash.AddU8(DigitalModule::GetInstance(module)->GetRelayForward());
					dash.AddU16((short)DigitalModule::GetInstance(module)->GetDIO());
					dash.AddU16(DigitalModule::GetInstance(module)->GetDIODirection());
					dash.AddCluster();
					{
						for (int i = 1; i <= 10; i++) {
							dash.AddU8((unsigned char) DigitalModule::GetInstance(module)->GetPWM(i));
							//dash.AddU8((unsigned char) i * 255 / 10);
						}
					}
					dash.FinalizeCluster();
				}
				dash.FinalizeCluster();
			}
			dash.FinalizeCluster();
		}
		dash.FinalizeCluster();

		// Can't read solenoids without an instance of the object
		dash.AddU8((char) 0);
	}
	dash.FinalizeCluster();
	dash.Finalize();
}

I'm not too proud to beg, can someone give me a hint here please. It shouldn't be this hard. Another two hours gone so far with different variations now. And I still don't know what the dashboard is expecting and in what order, how do you guys know? Is there documentation of that somewhere, and I would prefer a direct page reference please instead of just telling me to read the manual, because I don't know what manual to even look in.