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Timers don't start

Our team has been having trouble with the WPILib Timer class, since the Get() method always returns 0.

Code:

void Fenrir::AutonomousInit() {

    timer.Start();

}



void Fenrir::AutonomousPeriodic() {

    std::printf("%f\n", timer.Get());

}

timer is an instance variable of Fenrir, which is our main robot class that inherits from IterativeRobot. When we run the above code, it constantly prints 0 and never changes. We've also tried using the HasPeriodPassed() and GetFPGATimestamp() methods, but they don't work either. What could the problem be?

Thanks in advance!

Re: Timers don't start

This seems odd to me. But the one missing item would be timer.Reset() in AutonomousInit() ... OH and another thing comes to mind... put a printf in AutonomousInit() to ensure you've really gotten in there. If you never get the .Start....then you'll always get zero.

bob

Quote:

Originally Posted by TPackard (Post 1339804)

Our team has been having trouble with the WPILib Timer class, since the Get() method always returns 0.

Code:

void Fenrir::AutonomousInit() {

    timer.Start();

}



void Fenrir::AutonomousPeriodic() {

    std::printf("%f\n", timer.Get());

}