We’re not using text coding, just the blocks. However, every time we try to download even the simplest program to the brain, we now get a message that it is “downloading python system files” (never got this before) and after a minute or so the message that the program failed to load. Tried forcing a reload of the brain firmware, using a different laptop with vexcode v5 freshly downloaded and instealled, and still get the same result.
Maybe its the download cable?
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Found it. If anyone else has a similar problem. Go to File->About in the pull down menu. There is a python/C++ toggle switch. Make sure it is on C++.
Changing that toggle from Python to C++ does not actually fix your issue. It just changes the code generation to create C++ code that is compiled on your computer first, thus bypassing the need for the Python system files to get loaded on your V5 brain. We changed VEXcode to default to Python last August to prepare for switch blocks in VEXcode. This allows you to use text commands in your blocks projects. Switch blocks will only work with Python code.
That being said, I would like to figure out the actual issue you are having with the download. Can you please try to get the download to fail again. Once that happens, please submit feedback in VEXcode with the diagnostic data option checked. Please include a reference to this forum post or your email address in the feedback so that I’ll be able to get back to you.