In the latest update of VEXcode V5 Text, the angleAbs method for the old V1 Gyroscopes seems like it was removed. Is this a bug or is the angleAbs method gone for good? Will a method with the same functionality as angleAbs be added to the new V5 Inertial Sensors?
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We did some major cleanup of the gyro class to bring it inline with the new inertial class. angleAbs was removed, use “rotation” as a replacement for that. angleAbs had also technically been deprecated in earlier releases, we just don’t have a way if indicating that without causing potential confusion (by causing the compiler to issue warnings), it was replaced by “heading”, however, we also have made heading return values in the 0-360 deg range now.
We decided to do this now rather than keep old class member functions around forever, short term pain for a better long term API.
I need to write a post to explain these changes in more detail, just haven’t had time.
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