RobotPy 2010.beta2

[jhersh]

Originally Posted by Peter Johnson

That's exactly what I was just thinking this morning as well. A little program runs on your PC with a button for "Code Reload".

Note that the latest code (I don't recall if 2010.beta2 did this, but it's in the current repo) implements the 5 second restart loop entirely in Python (in boot.py). If boot.py exits the C++ level terminates as well. So it's easy enough to customize the restart behavior however you like.

Can I recommend that you do something that Java does... leverage the NetConsole input stream to signal the cRIO. You can just use a scanf from stdio... then a person using NetConsole or the serial console or wherever can easily reload. You can still make a utility that sends that keystroke to UDP port 6668 and give it a button to click if that's the ultimate interface you want.

-Joe