How to Write From SmartDashboard

[Team DRIFT]

This sounds like a really stupid question, and it is. Quite simply, we can't figure out how to use the SmartDashboard to input information into our program. Our SmartDashboard.putNumber() works perfectly fine, but when we try using the .getNumber() or .getBoolean(), or any of the gets, nothing happens. If we don't set a default value, no value is set.

For printing on the SmartDashboard, we are simply using the methods in our code, and the corresponding widgets are automatically created.

[Ben Wolsieffer]

You have to first put the value to the SmartDashboard before you can get its updated value. So, you call SmartDashboard.putNumber("this is a number", some_default_value), which causes the field to appear on the SmartDashboard. Then you can edit this number in the SmartDashboard GUI, and when you call SmartDashboard.getNumber("this is a number"), it will return the updated value.

[snekiam]

You also may need to hit tab for the value to be set in the dashboard

[Team DRIFT]

We got it to work! Thanks, lopsided98. That was extremely simple, but we tried so hard to figure it out. You made our lives a lot easier.