Controlling TalonSRX via the CAN bus

Technical Programming
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Since CANTalon for WPILib was removed, I imported the CTRE Phoenix libraries to be used in VSCode and enable CAN functionality for the TalonSRX. However, trying to import the needed libraries poses a challenge:

import com.ctre.CANTalon; is the CTRE documentation standard for accessing the TalonSRX. This can be seen here.

The import statement above cannot be resolved. I need to know how to control the TalonSRX via the CAN bus in order to employ all encoder functionality. Thank you guys!

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The CANTalon shim was deprecated last year and removed entirely for this season.

You should start by reading CTRE’s documentation (all of it): https://phoenix-documentation.readthedocs.io

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Use import com.ctre.phoenix.motorcontrol.can.WPI_TalonSRX;

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nvm, you’re using c++ not java. Sorry!

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The import statement in the OP is definitely Java, so I can see the confusion there.

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This was the statement that fixed it, thank you so much!

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