Why is there resumeTask() but no pauseTask()?

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Hi! So I’m building a robot for my class, and I noticed that when I typed in “resume”, ROBOTC (I’m using Natural Language PLTW) suggested “resumeTask”. Here is a picture of it:

Now, I tried searching up what it was, but I didn’t find any results! Mostly people were saying pausing and resuming tasks either:

  1. impossible
  2. doable with

hogCPU()

(I couldn’t get this to work! It did the other tasks anyways.)
3. double by calling pause and resume for every other tasks (according to charsleysa)
the third thing interested me. Perhaps it has to do with this


resumeTask()

function! However, there was no


pauseTask()

function, and when I tried entering it in manually, I got a compiler error. So, what gives? Would anyone please tell me how to pause and resume tasks? That’d help make the process of programming my robot a lot faster and straightforward!

Thanks in advance!

p.s.: about the second thing, [s]I did have


abortTimeslice()

in a few


while(true)

loops when I used


hogCPU()

. Maybe that’s why it didn’t pause the other tasks?[/s] I just tested it, and removing the


abortTimeslice

commands didn’t help. It still allows other tasks to run :confused: