Extending Built-in Vexcode classes

[NeverLucky]

I took a look at how the vexcode sdk was built, and as it turns out it was a series of classes with the definition hidden in an .a file. Would extending these classes as done below cause any technical problems?

[jpearman]

Nope. It’s about time someone did that. Here’s (a now obsolete) example from last year.

VCS open loop motor control

It may be a couple more weeks before we release an updated SDK for VCS with open loop motor control. So in the meantime I’m going to post some code that the more advanced teams can use who really want to turn off the PID control in the V5 motor and control it more directly. Use at your own risk, I haven’t tested using lots of open loop control along with methods such as rotateTo which will turn PID back on. To keep some forwards/backwards compatibility the best way to approach this is to use …