Everything I have found so far says if I put this in the program that I can get the value of a timer. I can't find it anywhere. I am trying to make a track timer and have everything perfect except for getting the value at the end of the track. It resets at the beginning but doesn't stop. Is this even possible?

I don't know exactly what you're asking, but I can give you some information about the timers.

ROBOTC has 4 timers: T1. T2, T3, and T4. You can access the value of the timer like this:


You can reset the timer (set it's value to zero and start it) by using ClearTimer(T1); again, you can use any of the four timers.

A word of warning when using timers: the value of the timer will automatically reset and start from zero when the timer's value reaches 32,767. That's about 32.7 seconds if you're counting in milliseconds, so if you want to count times longer than that, you need to account for this "wrap around" in your code.

Hope this helped in what you need to do.

Thanks for the response. Your answer is almost there!!! The problem I am having is at the end of this code I need the value of Time1(T1) and it sounds like when RobotC sees this it is suppose to record a time. But I can find it anywhere. And the time in the debug window for T1 just keeps running.... hope this makes more sense.




task main()
{
untilTouch(BumpSwitchStart);
startMotor(port4, -20);
turnFlashlightOn(Flashlightstart,-127);
turnFlashlightOn(flashlightend, -127);
untilDark(275, lightSensorStart);
ClearTimer(T1);
ClearTimer(nClockMinutes);
untilDark(275, lightSenorend);
time1(T1)=1;
}

The time is fairly short, easily under 30secs....

updated code

this actually somewhat works because at the end it freezes and I can read the time. But is there a correct way of doing this?

task main()
{
untilTouch(BumpSwitchStart);
wait(1);
startMotor(port4, -20);
turnFlashlightOn(Flashlightstart,-127);
turnFlashlightOn(flashlightend, -127);
untilDark(300, lightSensorStart);
ClearTimer(T1);
untilDark(400, lightSenorend);
time1(T1)=1;

}

figured it out!!

int race_time;/**/

task main()



{
untilTouch(BumpSwitchStart);
wait(1);
startMotor(port4, -20);
turnFlashlightOn(Flashlightstart,-127);
turnFlashlightOn(flashlightend, -127);
untilDark(300, lightSensorStart);
ClearTimer(T1);
untilDark(400, lightSenorend);
race_time = time1[T1];
writeDebugStreamLine("Time1msec= %d", race_time);
stopMotor(Motor1);
turnFlashlightOff(flashlightend);
turnFlashlightOff(Flashlightstart);

}