the configuration panel

Before moving on to the next program, let’s take a closer look at the Configuration Panel. When you select a block in your program, the Configuration Panel for that block displays in the lower-left corner of the IDE. This is where you set the options that control exactly how the block behaves. You will spend a lot of time working with the Configuration Panel when writing an NXT-G program.

Each block has its own Configuration Panel, and subsequent chapters discuss the details of each block. In this section, I concentrate on how the Configuration Panel works in general. The National Instruments engineers did a good job of using a consistent look and feel across the Configuration Panels for all the blocks, which is one of the ...

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