When I program in VEX, RobotC, I create a main loop. This loop will execute until it is killed somehow, or the break statement is used. Basically, you have an infinite loop (while(true) {...}) and that holds all your code.
In this loop, you only execute the command ONCE. Basically, the program loop will constantly check all inputs. If it notices any of the inputs high, for example, using a joystick, the program branches into another function, that runs the mechanism once. For servos, this is different. You assign a servo a position and it will stay there. You only signal the servo when you change positions (or not).
This way, everything will run together constantly.
It is sad that the VEX cortex does not support threading or tasks
. It would be nice to run tasks parallel to each other. Does anyone by chance know how to bypass RobotC and actually access C10 (I think that's what it runs)? We are doing VEX robotics in eng. class, but I want to do things that are a bit harder!