Elastic v2024.2.0-beta

Added

• Basic application logging
• Missing widgets from Shuffleboard and SmartDashboard
  • 3-Axis Accelerometer
  • Accelerometer
  • Encoder
  • Motor Controller
  • Nidec Brushless
  • Profiled PID Controller
  • Relay
  • Ultrasonic
• Text displaying network latency
• RTT network tables protocol
  • Only uses if the server is running NT4.1, still works with WPILib 2023
• Ability to automatically resize the height of the window to fit the Driver Station on screen (same thing the LabVIEW dashboard does)
• Better looking context menus
• Ability to change widget type from the context menu, even if not connected to network tables
• Option to change the default update rate and graph rate
• Option to hide metadata topics in the add widget dialog
• Ability to drag a table and auto create a list layout

Changes/Fixes

• Widgets are only rebuilt if subscription values change - significantly better performance
• Widgets ignore the mouse pointer when dragging
  • Prevents the tooltip from showing on dropdown choosers
• Default tabs get correctly created on initial startup
• Team number doesn't display "null" if it's not set
• Camera stream widget will no longer choose invalid stream URLs
• Camera stream no longer breaks when switching tabs
• Widgets correctly rebuild themselves when changing subscription settings
• Differential drive vector arrow now points in the correct direction at the correct location
• List layout label locations properly load on startup
• List layout widget types and NT properties can now be edited without having to restart the app (oops)
• Shuffleboard API won't add widgets if disconnected from Network Tables
• Match time widget rounds down instead of up
• NaN numbers don't crash the Field widget
• Field trajectories draw a solid line instead of multiple dots
• Drivetrain widgets are scaled to the size of the widget
• Graph widgets use NT timestamps to update data - significantly higher accuracy
• Array editing properly works in text display widgets

Internal Code Changes

• Upgraded Flutter version to 3.16.5
• NT widgets inherit an abstract class instead of using a mixin
• All widgets are built using the NTWidgetBuilder so all constructors can be defined in one spot
• Everything with NT4 related has been renamed to have NT, except for classes specific to NT4 (subscriptions and topics)
• State management has been completely rebuilt, data is no longer stored in the draggable container classes themselves

Full Changelog: v2024.1.1-beta...v2024.2.0-beta

Elastic v2024.1.1-beta

Added

• New shortcuts system
• Ability to reorder tabs
• Ability to change position of labels in list layouts
• More options for robot IP address connection

Changes/Fixes

• Shuffleboard API integration now supports the property names of Shuffleboard widgets
• Attempting to load an invalid JSON will now show an error on the screen
• Default update period for widgets has been changed 100 ms to save bandwidth (except for graphs which is still 33ms), this of course can still be changed manually
• Graph settings now update when you change them

UI Changes

• List layouts take up significantly less space
• Widgets now have a minimum size
• Match time text takes up all available space

Full Changelog: v2024.1.0-beta...v2024.1.1-beta

Elastic v2024.1.0-beta

Added

• List Layouts
• Team 6328 Network Alerts widget
• Swerve Drive visualization widget
• New shortcuts to create & close tabs

Changes/Fixes

• Temporarily removed Network Tables pinging, will be added with the release of WPILib 2024
• PhotonVision camera streams can now be added to the dashboard
• Hitting the tab button won't cause the window buttons or tab close buttons to become in focus
• The edit properties menu no longer has a hiccup when changing widget types
• Minimum window size is dynamically determined by screen resolution
• Color picker is much faster and doesn't immediately update
• The "Use Team Number for IP" IP address is now determined using the RoboRIO mDNS instead of 10.TE.AM.2
• The rename tab menu now has a 50 character limit
• shared_preferences.json is backed up on program startup, making corruption less threatening
• Dragging a camera stream widget around won't cause a "Too many simultaneous camera streams" error in robot code
• Changing tabs with the add widget dialog open won't cause the widgets to lock up
• Huge code cleanup and reorganization

UI Changes

• The handles to resize widgets are smaller, making it easier to drag and resize widgets
• Number slider has a new and improved look & feel

Full Changelog: v2024.0.3-beta...v2024.1.0-beta

Elastic v2024.0.3-beta

Added

• Single Color View
• Multi Color View
• Differential Drive

Changes/Fixes

• You can now only open 1 instance of the app at once, trying to open multiple instances will not work
• App will load even if the saved JSON has incorrect data types
• Widgets now render even if it's subscribed to a topic with an incorrect data type
• Published topics no longer get incorrectly unpublished when you remove a widget
• Field widgets now have the option to hide trajectories and other non-robot objects
• The close confirmation will appear even if the window isn't closed from clicking the close button
• Dashboard will now properly display weather or not it has disconnected from a robot
• Opening a layout with fewer tabs than the current one will not longer crash the program

UI Changes

• Command scheduler widget is more compact
• Window buttons now have a hover effect
• Close window button now turns red when you hover over it
• All toggle switches now have an outline around them

Full Changelog: v2024.0.2-beta...v2024.0.3-beta

Elastic v2024.0.2-beta

Changes/Fixes

• App now focuses when opened, even from the command line
• All network and internet related functions now work on MacOS

Full Changelog: v2024.0.1-beta...v2024.0.2-beta

Elastic v2024.0.1-beta

Added:

• Number bar
• Voltage view
• Robot preferences
• Grid size customizability

Changes/Fixes:

• Values no longer get cleared from the screen when you disconnect from your robot
• When unsubscribing from a NT4 topic, any publishers will be unpublished, allowing topics to be properly unannounced when not in use
• Arrays can now be modified in a text display
• Combo box chooser now takes up a limited amount of space, preventing overflow into other widgets
• Split button chooser is now scrollable
• The add widget dialog no longer locks up when scrolling
• All camera streams can now be added, previously only USB camera streams would work
• The 2nd stream in a camera stream widget is now prioritized to prevent using an unusable stream when connected to a robot
• All channels, voltages, and currents are rounded to 2 decimal places in the PowerDistribution widget, prevents box sizes from jumping all over the place

UI Changes

• Add widget dialog is more compact and less spaced out
• Combo box chooser lets you scroll and search if there are a lot of options

Full Changelog: v2024.0.0-beta...v2024.0.1-beta

Elastic v2024.0.0-beta

Initial release of Elastic

Features

• Color scheme & widget customizability
• IP retrieval from Driver Station
• Shuffleboard API Integration

Features in the Works

• List & Grid Layouts
• Drivetrain widgets
• Number bar & voltage view widgets

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Gold872/elastic-dashboard/commits/v2024.0.0-beta