Multithreading on Java

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Originally Posted by notmattlythgoe

You can create something called a CommandGroup which will run one command after another in a series (much like a series in labview), the Command Based API has a WaitCommand provided which will act as a wait period in seconds.

The way you worded that doesn't clearly answer my question.

Let me try re-wording it:

You can create something called a CommandGroup which contains a sequence of commands, intended to be executed one after another. The scheduler will queue the first of those commands, then queue the next command when the previous one has completed, and so on until all the commands in the group have been so queued (and therefore run in sequence). The Command Based API has a WaitCommand. The WaitCommand is not queued. Rather, when the scheduler encounters a WaitCommand in a CommandGroup, the scheduler does not queue the command following the WaitCommand until the specified time has expired.

I have no idea if the above description is an accurate account of what the Command Based implementation actually does, but is that what you meant?

It can also be done in a normal command by noting the initial time the command was started and basing actions off of the time since the start time.

That's a sort of state machine, with time being the state variable.