Sendable Chooser / Field2d Replacements

[codydg]

According to WPILib's documentation, SmartDashboard and Shuffleboard are deprecated to be removed in 2027. My team has been working on removing them from our 2025 repo.

Sendable Chooser and Field2d are in the SmartDashboard package. Are there any alternatives? To my memory, Field2d has a very simple behavior that could be replicated pretty easily, but having the nice wrapper is still good. SendableChooser, on the other hand, seems more difficult to reproduce. We use ComboBoxs in Elastic all the time. This page in Elastic's documentation suggests to me that WPILib's SendableChooser is the only way to get a dropdown menu.

Note: I'm not sure if WPILib and/or Elastic Dashboard questions should go under "Vendor Libraries" or not so I placed this in "General" as it isn't specific to one language.

[PeterJohnson]

They haven’t been removed because we haven’t finished implementing the replacements. You’ll want to wait until we have the new stuff available before trying to transition your code.

[codydg]

Ahh, ok. I had the 2027 alpha version up, and saw several issues due to the removal of SmartDashboard and Shuffleboard. So after seeing the links above, I had assumed we needed to remove all references to them, and didn't realize that a couple of items were still sticking around at the moment!

[ThadHouse]

Yup. You can even still connect 2025 shuffleboard to an alpha robot. SmartDashboard will no longer connect however.