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Post  cdabbott316 Mon Feb 02, 2009 9:43 pm

This is what I made for the api to interact with the gui.

Code:
// Robot codes
#define   NO_ROBOT  0
#define   ROBOT1    1
#define   ROBOT2    2

// Codes for rover commands
#define  ROVER_FORWARDS  101
#define  ROVER_BACKWARDS  102
#define  ROVER_RIGHT      103
#define  ROVER_LEFT      104

// Codes for camera commands
#define  FRONT_CAMERA_UP        201
#define  FRONT_CAMERA_DOWN      202
#define  FRONT_CAMERA_RIGHT    203
#define  FRONT_CAMERA_LEFT      204
#define  FRONT_CAMERA_ZOOM_IN  205
#define  FRONT_CAMERA_ZOOM_OUT  206

// Codes for gun commands
#define  GUN_UP    301
#define  GUN_DOWN  302
#define  GUN_RIGHT  303
#define  GUN_LEFT  304
#define  GUN_FIRE  305

// Codes for sensor/dart commands
#define  ROBOT_HIT    401
#define  NO_DARTS    402
#define  ONE_DARTS    403
#define  TWO_DARTS    404
#define  THREE_DARTS  405

// Codes for general commands
#define  RESET  -999

// Codes for in-room camera select
#define CAMERA_TOP          501
#define CAMERA_TOP_LEFT      502
#define CAMERA_TOP_RIGHT    503
#define CAMERA_BOTTOM        504
#define CAMERA_BOTTOM_LEFT  505
#define CAMERA_BOTTOM_RIGHT  506

// Receives a command from the GUI group and initiates the proper action(s)
// based on the data received.
bool ReceiveCommand_Gui (
   int robot,   // robot id
   int cmd,   // command id
   int len,   // length of the data, 0 if no data
   void *data   // the data
);

// Sends the desired overhead image feed to the gui
bool SendImage_Overhead(
   int camera_feed   // code for desired camera feed
);

// Sends the desired rover image feed to the gui
bool SendImage_Rover(
   int robot   // code for robot
);

// Reports the status of the dart gun and hits to the gui
bool SendDart_Status(
   int robot,   // code for the robot
   int status   // status code for the dart gun
);

What still needs to be done with this...
1) Stub code, I have to write what?
2) Is robot code needed? One laptop only "talks" to one webapp, but it puts the image on fa? Probably better to have it and not need it that the other way.
3) Will any of the commands need to send data that the gui has to send to us? Can probably delete size and data from receive command.
4) Do we need something to say the other robot was hit to say the game is over?
5) What exactly does the reset command need to do?
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Post  dsmarsh Tue Feb 03, 2009 7:15 pm

cdabbott316 wrote:
// Sends the desired overhead image feed to the gui
bool SendImage_Overhead(
int camera_feed // code for desired camera feed
);

// Sends the desired rover image feed to the gui
bool SendImage_Rover(
int robot // code for robot
);

didnt you change this to return a string not an int?

Let me know and send me your doc file or port it here so i can compile and send him everything tomorrow.
And I need your stub code for the functions that the gui group is going to provide
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Post  cdabbott316 Tue Feb 03, 2009 9:14 pm

I think this is the final .h stuff
is the receiveGuiDart really more like a reportGuiDart in the sense that we only call it when there has been a hit?

Code:
// Robot codes
#define  NO_ROBOT  0
#define  ROBOT1    1
#define  ROBOT2    2

//Codes for commands
#define  ROVER_FORWARDS 101
#define  ROVER_BACKWARDS 102
#define  ROVER_RIGHT 103
#define  ROVER_LEFT 104
#define  FRONT_CAMERA_UP 201
#define  FRONT_CAMERA_DOWN 202
#define  FRONT_CAMERA_RIGHT 203
#define  FRONT_CAMERA_LEFT 204
#define  FRONT_CAMERA_ZOOM_IN 205
#define  FRONT_CAMERA_ZOOM_OUT 206
#define  GUN_UP 301
#define  GUN_DOWN 302
#define  GUN_RIGHT 303
#define  GUN_LEFT 304
#define  GUN_FIRE 305
#define  INITIALIZE -111
#define  KILL -555
#define  RESET -999

//codes for camera feeds
#define CAMERA_TOP 501
#define CAMERA_TOP_LEFT 502
#define CAMERA_TOP_RIGHT 503
#define CAMERA_BOTTOM 504
#define CAMERA_BOTTOM_LEFT 505
#define CAMERA_BOTTOM_RIGHT 506
#define CAMERA_ROBOT1_FRONT 507
#define CAMERA_ROBOT1_GUN 508
#define CAMERA_ROBOT2_FRONT 509
#define CAMERA_ROBOT2_GUN 510

// Requests that a command be run on a rover
// Returns true if function is called
//        false if function is not called
bool SendCommCommand(
  int rover_ID, // which rover to send the command to
  int command_name // the command code
);

// Requests an image from the server
// Returns a string with the filename or path on the apache server
string ReceiveCommImage(
  int camera_feed // which camera feed to get
);

// Requests data on if a rover has been hit
// Returns true if rover has been hit
//        false if rover has not been hit
bool ReceiveGuiDart(
  int rover_ID // which rover to get the data from
);

And this is the stub code, I am still kinda unsure why the GUI group is writing this but whatever.
We have to write SendCommCommand and ReceiveCommImage so there is no stub code for those.
Code:

bool ReceiveGuiDart (int rover_ID)
{
  bool isHit=true; // or sometimes false
  printf("Checking if robot %d was hit\n",rover_ID);
  if (isHit) {
    printf("Robot %d hit\n",rover_ID);
  } else {
    printf("Robot %d not hit\n",rover_ID);
  }
  return isHit;
}
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Post  dsmarsh Wed Feb 04, 2009 9:29 am

Code:
void ReceiveGuiDart (int rover_ID)//this is a game ending function
{
  printf("Robot %d was hit\n",rover_ID);//this will be a pause in the gui and a game over, not just a print
}
--this is more of what i am looking for.
--this is something that the comm group can call when we see a hit and then the gui group can act on.






I think you are thinking about it wrong.
The gui group isnt going to be writing it like that.

I think it will be something we will call when we know a robot has been hit and then the gui group will write the functions and it will make the gui interface show a game over.

The gui writes it, we call it.
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Post  Peasley Wed Feb 04, 2009 2:00 pm

The GUI groups need to be able to call startFeed(int ID) and endFeed(int ID) where ID is the camera to be used (NETCAM or WEBCAM).

-Brian Peasley
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Post  dsmarsh Wed Feb 04, 2009 3:26 pm

Peasley wrote:The GUI groups need to be able to call startFeed(int ID) and endFeed(int ID) where ID is the camera to be used (NETCAM or WEBCAM).

-Brian Peasley

Code:
// Requests an image from the server
// Returns a string with the filename or path on the apache server
string ReceiveCommImage(
  int camera_feed // which camera feed to get
);

This is the same thing right?
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Post  swesson Wed Feb 04, 2009 3:31 pm

I believe startFeed is the function that starts saving pictures from the camera to the designated folder on the harddrive.

The GUI's ReceiveCommImage is the command that retrieves the image file from FA.

Again, startFeed will need to be part of the initialization from the GUI.
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Post  Peasley Wed Feb 04, 2009 4:20 pm

ReceiveCommImage is not the same. Its as swesson had said. In the initialization routine for the GUI group they need to call startFeed(int ID) to tell the cameras to start capturing. endFeed(int ID) will stop capturing images from the camera, so that should be in there end program routine.

-Brian Peasley
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Post  dsmarsh Wed Feb 04, 2009 4:56 pm

Peasley wrote:ReceiveCommImage is not the same. Its as swesson had said. In the initialization routine for the GUI group they need to call startFeed(int ID) to tell the cameras to start capturing. endFeed(int ID) will stop capturing images from the camera, so that should be in there end program routine.

-Brian Peasley

ok, but this could all be done in the same thing, there is no need for the gui group to say, startFeed then ReceiveCommImage
the camera group should always be saving to the img file on the harddrive (on the laptop)

but if you want to add this then let us know because we have to have it in our API by the end of the day.
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Post  cdabbott316 Wed Feb 04, 2009 5:18 pm

The GUI group is going to call something like SendCommand(ROBOT1, INIT).
*At least I'm under the impression they will be calling something like that.

When they do that we can call the startCamera() or whatever. I don't think we need a separate function for that.
We can then call endCamera() whenever we report a hit to the GUI.

As far as the room feeds ...
1) We could start all of the room cameras when init is called or
2) We can have the GUI call a SendCommand(NOROBOT, CAMERA_FEED_X) whenever they want to switch feeds.
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