Tutorials

Beginner

Searching and Downloading Components

What are components and how do you search or download them?

Crash Course (Development Branch) (Stable Branches 14.08 and 13.10)

Create a Finroc application from scratch: a simple simulation of a robot moving in a planar environment with a wall. "Crash course" that covers various fundamental topics for application development - as well as drawing to a canvas.

Data Port Basics

Things, everybody using data ports should know. This includes creating and connecting ports, as well as publishing and receiving data.

Inter-Process Port Connections

How to connect Finroc components in different processes ("parts")

Intermediate

Data Recording

How to record the contents of selected data ports to hard disk

RPC Ports

How to use RPC ports when more complex component interaction is required

Component-Defined Visualization

How to add visualization to Finroc components - shown e.g. as (animated) thumbnails in the Finstruct component graph

Advanced

Suitable Port Data Types

Suitable C++ types for use in ports and parameters - and how to make any C++ type suitable

Data Ports

Covers relevant features that data ports provide for component and application developers. This includes input port queues, port listeners and dynamic port construction.

Blackboards

How to use a mechanism for network transparent shared objects or memory

MakeBuilder

Finroc's convenient build system

Hosting Finroc Repositories

How to host Finroc repositories on you own server (with component lists and repository management)