This is in response to a few private messages and emails I've received. I made the source available, but the whole point of this application is that you don't need to modify the source code to add custom views. You really don't have to know anything about the dashboard data at all. You only need to follow the instructions in the previous post to create a new user control and add UI elements to display the data. There are a few custom dashboardy (thats a technical term) widgets included, including a sliding bar, LED, CMU camera FOV, and last year's field.
The dashboard views are just user controls that inherit from a base class in the FRC.Dashboard.Typelib assembly. The base class inherits from UserControl, but adds methods that are used as callbacks to notify your control when new dashboard packets are available. The dashboard application loads the controls at runtime and lays them out on tabs in the UI. When a new packet is received it calls the appropriate callback on control loaded in the active tab. When a packet of type data frame1 is received and parsed it will call ShowDataFrame1() on the active view control. Its pretty simple when you dig into the code, but the architecture allows you to extend the functionality without modifying the original source code.
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I forgot to mention that you can use any CLR 2.0 compatible language (C#, VB.NET, or Managed C++) to build custom dashboard views. The step are the same, but the syntax depends on the language. VB.NET 2005 Express Edition is available here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/ex...b/default.aspx. I haven't used it and I'm not familiar with the syntax differences.
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