Dashboard Customizing Questions LabView

[Lucario231]

Hi
I was wondering how to edit the outputs on the classmate DS screen. Like a larger camera window or adding lights and other outputs for the drivers to see.

Last year the coding was easier with the blue box and using the DS output libraries. I have looked at the code and is challenging to look at. I understand the calling and how it outputs the lights and other things like that.

Anyone try this stuff on the Labview side?

Thanks

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by Lucario231

Last year the coding was easier with the blue box and using the DS output libraries.

You can do exactly the same thing with the Classmate Driver Station.


We have a full-featured custom dashboard. Setting it up was surprisingly easy. Actually, some of the controls are still waiting for the robot code to catch up with them. I haven't yet gotten a complete understanding of typedefs in LabVIEW; when I do, I will consider writing a tutorial.

[Mark McLeod]

First create your own Dashboard, then you can edit the single front panel to modify the display and make the video window larger.

If you've already created your own Dashboard, are you just looking for guidance in how to resize and adjust the Dashboard display?

[Lucario231]

Ok i see what you are doing, with the DS. So i use the dashboard project and modify it from there. So I can develop the DS on another computer and transfer it to the Classmate?

any ways thanks for the help.

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by Lucario231

So i use the dashboard project and modify it from there. So I can develop the DS on another computer and transfer it to the Classmate?

Yes.
We call that the Dashboard though, not the DS.
There are actually two applications running on the Classmate Driver account:

• Dashboard (top half of the default screen)- we can change and modify and even run on a second PC at the competition if we want the hassle of hauling a second laptop around.
• DS (bottom half of the default screen)- we cannot change this and this must be run on the Classmate at competition

[BLProgram2010]

We have successful modified our dashboard to our liking through typedepths and other etc, but we do not know how to replace the old dashboard with the new modified dashboard? Shouldn't building the dashboard under build specifications change the dash board, but every time we try run driver station it remains the same. How do we fix the problem?

[Mark McLeod]

Go under Build Specifications
Right-click on FRC PC Dashboard
Select Properties
Change "Target filename" to "Dashboard.exe"
Change "Destination directory" to "C:\Program Files\FRC Dashboard"


Then when you build, your .exe will replace the existing Dashboard every time.