Sharing code in VexCode App and Web site or n Google Docs

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Hi, we are a new team to VexCode and have been using the VR site pretty successfully, and I got the Vexcode app to work on both a Mac and a Windows machine. Great! But when I try to share code or files the app won’t read them!

For example, I had a student create code on Vex VR to test out some things, and I wanted to run it on a real robot to see how it held up. When he shared the file on his google drive I downloaded it and my copy of VexCode had it grayed out (mac version). I tried saving the files directly and that didn’t work either.

Am I missing something here? We are doing the block code and I guess theoretically I could copypaste the underlying Python and re-convert it to block code but that seems cumbersome at the very least.

any help is appreciated.

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VEXcode VR and physical versions of VEXcode projects are not cross-compatible. You’ll need to recreate the project in your robot’s version of VEXcode.

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Is that also true of the web versions of VexCode and the physical one?

Also is there anything else I shoudl know about sharing code? Is there a more seamless way to do it when I program the physical robot ?

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Web-based versions of VEXcode and app-based versions of VEXcode are compatible, but only with alike platform.

For example, web-based VEXcode IQ can open projects made on app-based VEXcode IQ, and vice versa.

However, VEXcode IQ cannot open projects from VEXcode VR, or VEXcode V5 from either web-based or app-based.

You can learn more about saving projects in VEXcode by visiting help.vex.com and selecting your specific platform.

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The problem I was encountering was that a project done for Vexcode V5 in the VR platform wasn’t able to be opened on the desktop version. Same robot, I wasn’t trying to go between Vexcode IQ or anything else…