Help with Task Programming

[jpearman]

you may want to read this discussion on ROBOTC tasks, however, I need to fix the links in that post, forum upgrade broke everything.

Discussion on using tasks in ROBOTC

It’s time for another one of my long posts, this time discussing ROBOTC tasks and some of the do’s and don’ts. I realize this information is going to be way beyond the comprehension of many of the new students reading it, however, don’t worry, this is complicated stuff and most of you don’t really need to know all of these details, it’s aimed at mentors and those obsessive programmers that want to extract the maximum from ROBOTC. ROBOTC Tasks There were a couple of threads last week that comme…

also, here’s some code I posted last week.

Trying to multitask in Vex Coding Studios for User Control

Here is some example code. It’s from VEXcode but should work in VCS as well. It uses additional tasks for drive and controlling a motor with one button. #include "vex.h" using namespace vex; // A global instance of vex::brain used for printing to the V5 brain screen vex::brain Brain; // A global instance of vex::competition vex::competition Competition; // define your global instances of motors and other devices here vex::motor leftMotor( vex::PORT1 ); vex::motor rightMotor( vex::P…