And now, with a new season comes a new ZomB release…
ZomB v0.9 beta 1 (v0.8.3.481)
Auto-Updates should work flawlessly now… (crosses fingers)
Several new controls, including control groups
SlimDX properly installed? (please make sure it lets you know if it does not install)
Settings manager
Help Tutorial
New default source (2012 WPILib NetTable)
Many bugs fixed
A bunch of UI polish
And since last year, the list is even more prolific. Highlights:
Auto-Updates
AutoListening improvements
Video saving improvemnts
Auto-Sizing graphs
Profiles
A lot of UI polish
When you launch this version for the first time, it will pop up a help tutorial (if you’ve used ZomB before, its under ZomB>Help…), to show you cool features. Note that there are several improvements coming for the help tutorial, as well as several different versions. After seeing the game this year, transformations will be particularly useful (think: box rotating to show bridge balance)
The next update should securely download in the background, and prompt to you install it! If you’ve used a previous version, and been disapointed, please try this version. And remember, if you have any issues at all, please let me know. The hardest bugs to fix are the ones I don’t know about.
Also, if anyone is interested in helping develop ZomB next year (I’ll be at college and probably won’t have enough time), or wants to learn C#, WPF, and/or NSIS, please contact me. The next release should have some fun components…
As always, all official releases are GPG/PGP signed with the ZomB Dashboard System Developers <[email protected]> OpenPGP key (fingerprint: CB2528EA 8C98CD11 E50D5102 32D31A2C 6CD4A33E)
The SlimDX installer fails on both my Win7 x86 development notebook and my Win7 x64 desktop. So I tried just installing the SlimDX runtime from their website. It still didn’t work so I tried copying the .NET 2.0/x86 .dll to the ZomB application folder and that also didn’t work. I’m out of ideas.
I just want to know if this is a PEBKAC issue (since I’ve had a few of those with previous versions of ZomB) or if it’s actually a bug. Thanks for this excellent program. Our team used it last season with great results.
Here are the error messages that ViZ.exe throws when I try to run it:
System.Exception: Error searching for Controls. This is most likely caused by a missing dependency. Is SlimDX installed? ---> System.Reflection.ReflectionTypeLoadException: Unable to load one or more of the requested types. Retrieve the LoaderExceptions property for more information.
at System.Reflection.Module._GetTypesInternal(StackCrawlMark& stackMark)
at System.Reflection.Assembly.GetTypes()
at System451.Communication.Dashboard.WPF.Design.Reflector.GetZomBDesignableClasses()
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at System451.Communication.Dashboard.WPF.Design.Reflector.GetZomBDesignableClasses()
at System451.Communication.Dashboard.ViZ.Designer.Window_Loaded(Object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
With Inner:
System.Reflection.ReflectionTypeLoadException: Unable to load one or more of the requested types. Retrieve the LoaderExceptions property for more information.
at System.Reflection.Module._GetTypesInternal(StackCrawlMark& stackMark)
at System.Reflection.Assembly.GetTypes()
at System451.Communication.Dashboard.WPF.Design.Reflector.GetZomBDesignableClasses()
remove any files from slimdx/ZomB in C:\Program Files
install above link
try ZomB (and expand the dependencies tab, and tell me if slimdx will be installed)
If that fails, PM me
PEBKAC? Unless you mean “Patricks Endlessly Broken Kashmir Antique Cup”, I have no idea what that acronym means…
It looks like an installer issue. I’m thinking of pulling SlimDX out of the main dll, due to the many issues with it…
Glad to hear it worked well for you next year, I hope it will work for you this year also!
The dependencies tab in the ZomB installer notes that SlimDX is already installed after I go through steps 1-6. However, even though ZomB installs it still fails with the same error. I’ll PM you.
PEBKAC means ‘Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair’ in other words I was just trying to make sure I hadn’t done something dumb
Ah. Makes more sense than my acronym. If you want to let me know what those previous experiences were, I can make a note of it in the documentation so others don’t stumble there also.
DriverStation and xShake are optional plugins (not installed by default due to SlimDX above)
If you launch ZomB, this update should securely download in the background, and prompt to you install it! If you’ve used a previous version, and been disappointed, please try this version. And remember, if you have any issues at all, please let me know. The hardest bugs to fix are the ones I don’t know about.
Also, if anyone is interested in helping develop ZomB next year (I’ll be at college and probably won’t have enough time), or wants to learn C#, WPF, and/or NSIS, please contact me. The next release should have some fun components…
As always, all official releases are GPG/PGP signed with the ZomB Dashboard System Developers <[email protected]> OpenPGP key (fingerprint: CB2528EA 8C98CD11 E50D5102 32D31A2C 6CD4A33E)
And to answer a question:
The driver station plugin is NOT meant for competition field play. It more of a pits “OMG! need to enable robot now!” sort of thing
When you launch this version for the first time, it will pop up a help tutorial (if you’ve used ZomB before, its under ZomB>Help…), to show you cool features. Note that there are several improvements coming for the help tutorial, as well as several different versions. After seeing the game this year, transformations will be particularly useful (think: box rotating to show bridge balance)
This update should securely download in the background, and prompt to you install it! If you’ve used a previous version, and been disappointed, please try this version. And remember, if you have any issues at all, please let me know. The hardest bugs to fix are the ones I don’t know about.
Also, if anyone is interested in helping develop ZomB next year (I’ll be at college and probably won’t have enough time), or wants to learn C#, WPF, and/or NSIS, please contact me. The next release should have some fun components…
As always, all official releases are GPG/PGP signed with the ZomB Dashboard System Developers <[email protected]> OpenPGP key (fingerprint: CB2528EA 8C98CD11 E50D5102 32D31A2C 6CD4A33E)
Oops…I didn’t exactly read the full release notes before installing this update (I got the notification e-mail from FIRST-Forge days ago ^_^). However, the install didn’t die on me. Should I go back and uninstall even though I only had the 0.9 betas installed on my machines before installing this 0.9 final? Or is this warning just for people coming from 0.83 or before?
