Benefits of "Periodic Tasks VI"?

[Chris_Elston]

Originally Posted by Greg McKaskle

By comparison, Periodic tasks run in parallel. The loops initially share data with TeleOp via globals, but are not otherwise intertwined. The do not hold up teleop, and they do not wait for a message to arrive. They are a great place to have code that waits for sensors or timers and triggers because of a driver action or environmental action.
Does that help?
Greg McKaskle

Greg, so I don't wanna hi-jack but I sort of have the same question here because the period tasks are new in the 2012 framework compared to the 2011, 2010 and 2009 framework.

If there is a button on a joystick that is pressed to turn on a motor setting, you're saying it's best to place this in periodic tasks? Rather than place the motor set output in telop?

Should we only put robot drive code or joystick to robot drive in teleop and let's say all other components in period tasks?

thanks.
Chris