I got an email from Linda... she's got an interesting problem and I'm hoping readers can offer some advice. Here is her situation:
I am a FLL coach, and I have a problem with the NXT program files
that I can't figure out. The team wants the programs to be in a
certain order, so they deleted all their programs and re-downloaded
them in the desired order, and even renamed them "1-Dirt Trap, 2-
Bone, etc. to make it easy to see that they are using the correct
program on the FLL missions. Here's the problem. After selecting and
running 1-Dirt Trap, you push the back button one time (and still see
1-Dirt Trap in the window), press the right arrow to go to 2-Bone,
select 2-Bone, run 2-Bone, and press the back button. Instead of
seeing 2-Bone in the window, which would mean that one press of the
right arrow gets you right to 3-Magnet, the window hops back to 1-
Dirt Trap, so you have to press the right arrow 2 times to get to 3-
Magnet. Since there are 9 missions, you can see that by the time you
are running 7-Elevator, it's really frustrating and time consuming to
be back at the 1-Dirt Trap screen, and have to press the right arrow
seven times to get to program 8. Why does the back button take you
back to the very first program you ran? Is there anyway to make it
stay on the most recently run program? We know that we could use some
programming techniques to run the missions sequentially, but
occasionally a mission fails and needs to be rerun rather than
automatically progress to the next mission. Also, if a mission has to
be rerun, that consumes time, so the team might choose to skip a less
valuable mission. So we would prefer to have the greater control of
actually selecting the programs on the screen.
I am a FLL coach, and I have a problem with the NXT program files
that I can't figure out. The team wants the programs to be in a
certain order, so they deleted all their programs and re-downloaded
them in the desired order, and even renamed them "1-Dirt Trap, 2-
Bone, etc. to make it easy to see that they are using the correct
program on the FLL missions. Here's the problem. After selecting and
running 1-Dirt Trap, you push the back button one time (and still see
1-Dirt Trap in the window), press the right arrow to go to 2-Bone,
select 2-Bone, run 2-Bone, and press the back button. Instead of
seeing 2-Bone in the window, which would mean that one press of the
right arrow gets you right to 3-Magnet, the window hops back to 1-
Dirt Trap, so you have to press the right arrow 2 times to get to 3-
Magnet. Since there are 9 missions, you can see that by the time you
are running 7-Elevator, it's really frustrating and time consuming to
be back at the 1-Dirt Trap screen, and have to press the right arrow
seven times to get to program 8. Why does the back button take you
back to the very first program you ran? Is there anyway to make it
stay on the most recently run program? We know that we could use some
programming techniques to run the missions sequentially, but
occasionally a mission fails and needs to be rerun rather than
automatically progress to the next mission. Also, if a mission has to
be rerun, that consumes time, so the team might choose to skip a less
valuable mission. So we would prefer to have the greater control of
actually selecting the programs on the screen.