Setting up the 2019 FRC Control System (Java)

This wiki is currently a stub. It will be expanded in the next few weeks.

Introduction

The 2019 Control System for FRC brings new changes in how code is written and deployed to the robot. Instead of using Eclipse like previous years, there are now ways to deploy Java code to the robot using VSCode and GradleRIO. Several steps must be taken to make use of this new system.

Setting it up

Follow the instructions here to install VSCode and the appropriate extensions for WPILib.

Troubleshooting

Java Runtime could not be located: change settings.json (user settings) in File > Preferences > Settings > "java.home" > Edit in settings.json

and then place the path to the java executable to override the default settings.