by adamss » Mon Apr 11, 2011 9:12 pm
Hi. I installed Aforge for the first time today, but I can't seem to get it to work properly. My own code doesn't work, neither does the enclosed "RCXTest" test application under samples.
I've tried to get it to work under both a 32- and 64-bit version of Windows 7. Under the latter, I had to compile for a 32-bit processor to get the RCXTest application to run. I'm using an RCX 1.0 brick, v 3.1. My IR tower is serial, connected to my PC via a USB adapter cable.
When I debug RCXTest, I can see that the the RCXBrick instance returns true for both IsConnected and IsAlive. Calling methods against the brick doesn't throw any exceptions and I can see the tower's green LED light up whenever I try to do anything, but I can't drive any of the motors, nor get any state back (battery power, sensors etc). Stepping down into the code up to the GhostAPI layer seems to suggest Ghost is not returning anything from the brick, but isn't throwing exceptions.
Is there something really simple I'm doing wrong? When running Lejos programs, one needs to upload a temporary firmware to the brick, and then java programs, in order to run anything. I assume Aforge talks "live" to the brick, without any need to manually upload anything?
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
