Need some help with timers

[zippy36jr]

I’m am working on some lighting animations for our robot this year and during testing, I was using Timer.delay() for most of the functions such as filling up the strip from the middle to outside or from one side to the other. I soon realized that the delay function halts the thread the code is running on and I wondering what would be the best way I could set up a timer that would not cause any issues with the robot running normally.

Link to code: https://gist.github.com/zippy36jr/bf8390952567e09e4120259c0afb05b4

[Amicus1]

Make a counter variable you increment every loop. Then instead of checking time passed you check loops taken.

[Peter_Johnson]

Create a Timer instance and use the reset() and hasElapsed() or advanceIfElapsed() functions to determine if a certain amount of time has passed and optionally reset the timer.

[Amicus1]

You win. At least if you need precise time.