A good time based way to program

[neal]

Thanks all for your suggestions. I'm trying to just stick with SimpleRobot for this year since I don't think we have enough time now to write it for CommandBased one, and to test, troubleshoot it.

Brad, does timeouts also work with SimpleRobot, I checked the cookbook and it only shows examples for the command-based bot.

[BradAMiller]

Originally Posted by neal

Thanks all for your suggestions. I'm trying to just stick with SimpleRobot for this year since I don't think we have enough time now to write it for CommandBased one, and to test, troubleshoot it.

Brad, does timeouts also work with SimpleRobot, I checked the cookbook and it only shows examples for the command-based bot.

Unfortunately it doesn't. You're correct that if you do a Timer.delay() it will stop the thread, and the rest of the program. If you want overlapped stuff happening then, as you suggested, you can use timers. Then you'll need a loop that checks if the time is up on the drive system while continuing to service the other subsystems. For trying to do a lot of overlapping operations I'd prefer to use the IterativeRobot base class. Then the looping is built in.

Brad

[neal]

Thanks!

We'll probably just use Command Based Robot. Just started writing it again and looking through the cookbook and GearsBot.