Changing parameters on the fly?

[bob.wolff68]

I will be working this weekend on doing a non-2nd-laptop SmartDashboard text-input experiment which you could try yourself if you're so inclined...

Basically, it is my understanding that the text box is "filled" and noted as such when you tab away or change focus, but the "GetString()" call doesn't notice it yet. So, I'm thinking that if we put a BUTTON on the screen which says "Commit Changes", that possibly in that function, we can do the GetString() and maybe get the changed values back out.

We'll see...

bob

[eaglesfan51520]

You can always declare a driver station object and make use of the GetAnalogIn which has four inputs.

[DjScribbles]

Originally Posted by eaglesfan51520

You can always declare a driver station object and make use of the GetAnalogIn which has four inputs.

I just noticed the analog and digital inputs in the driver station last night, wasn't quite sure if they did what I thought they did

Seems like a more smooth way of tuning these things, I'll have to give it a try (we wound up swapping our tires which messed with all the PIDs )

[garyk]

We code joystick->GetZ() to use the "throttle" input roller to return a float in the range -1.0 to 1.0 inclusive. One can then tune with several joysticks while observing the the behaviour of the 'bot. Or fine-tune by dividing the z axis value by 10.0, etc.