{"id":233,"date":"2009-03-14T05:08:54","date_gmt":"2009-03-14T10:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/?p=233"},"modified":"2009-03-14T05:46:27","modified_gmt":"2009-03-14T10:46:27","slug":"wpilib-test-harness-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/03\/14\/wpilib-test-harness-released\/","title":{"rendered":"WPILib Test Harness Released!"},"content":{"rendered":"

So after *far* too much time spent on this, I am happy to announce the release of my WPILib Test Harness! For those who aren’t aware, WPILib is the name of the C++ library that FIRST gives to FIRST Robotics Teams to control the robots. The control system is a PowerPC running on a cRio platform designed and produced by National Instruments.<\/p>\n

It had occurred to me towards the end of the build season this year that it was really annoying that I could only easily test code while our team was meeting, and of course I stay up late (as evidenced by this post time). So I wrote some stubs, but at some point I realized it would just be easier to make a giant stub for WPILib, since its just a set of classes with some hardware interfaces. It was extremely useful, and as I evolved it I was even able to find bugs in WPILib and the program for our bot.<\/p>\n

At some point I decided to bring it in the direction that it is now, and I’ve spent the last week adding things and making the GUI a bit shinier. I’m pretty happy with the results so far, but theres a long way to go before every bot program will run under it. There’s a lot of things that do work, but there’s also a lot of things that don’t work.
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All you need to do is get a copy of Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition<\/a>, and install the wxWidgets<\/a> GUI toolkit. Since I’m using wxWidgets for the GUI, I anticipate that it will get ported over to other platforms in the future as time (and need for it) allows.<\/p>\n

Features\/things supported:<\/strong><\/p>\n