Multiple Tasks

[cameronb2100]

On Robot C you could create multiple tasks by just typing task taskname() {code goes here} then you would say start task and that would run in the background. Is there any way to do that in Vex Code V5 Pro?

[trontech569]

There are actually a lot of threads about this if you use the search bar.

This is one of the best (including example code by the JPearman). I linked JPearman’s example, but the rest of the thread could also probably be helpful:

[Vex C++]How to Multitask

pretty close. example using vex::task class. vex::brain Brain; int myTask() { int count = 0; while(1) { Brain.Screen.printAt( 10, 60, "I am the other task %d", count++ ); // don't hog the cpu vex::task::sleep( 25 ); } return(0); } int main() { int count = 0; // this is similar to startTask vex::task t( myTask ); while(1) { Brain.Screen.printAt( 10, 30, "Hello from main %d", count++ ); // Allow other tasks to …

This is a post with a lot of links in it, some with other example codes that would probably be helpful.

Using tasks in VEXcode

Since, I don’t know what are your goals, I’ll just provide links to several very helpful replies by jpearman about tasks, that I had bookmarked: