sending info to a console

[James Dempsey]

If you are trying to send an output to the console on a development computer, you must use the System.out.print or println methods to send data to the console wheter it be strings, integers, characters etc.

If you want to send information to the dashboard, look through the sample code provided with the FRC plugin in NetBeans.

Hope this helps
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James D

Edit:
After re-reading your post it sounds like you are trying to send data to the User Messages section of the Dashboard. To access the lower part of the Dashboard you must use the class Dashboard. Here is an example of how to have a class object for the lower half of the Dashboard:

Dashboard lowDashData = DriverStation.getInstance().getDashboardPackerLow( );

You then have to add clusters in order to be able to send your data.
Again sorry if you already knew this but I hope this helped you

[a kenny03]

yeah. i want something like the console from last year. we use windriver, and our team was able to get output data from the robot. thats what we are trying to replicate or get as close as possible

[jhersh]

Originally Posted by James Dempsey

After re-reading your post it sounds like you are trying to send data to the User Messages section of the Dashboard. To access the lower part of the Dashboard you must use the class Dashboard.

I believe that's inaccurate. If you want to send strings to the User Messages, on the Driver Station, you need to use the DriverStationLCD class. If you want to send data to a Dashboard (where you would have to add a text box or other controls), then you use the Dashboard class.

[James Dempsey]

Yes my mistake. I was extremely tired when I responded to this post. The DashboardLCD class should be the class you would use. Here is the link for methods and such:
http://www.wbrobotics.com/javadoc/ed...tationLCD.html

Again sorry for the confusion there on my misinformation, my bad.