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Justin YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 13	Time Delay Nov 30th, 2009, 9:21pm   Hello All, Looking for a way to make a timer. Basically, I'm looking to deactivate a function in the code after a certain amount of time has been reached since activation. Is calling millis(); twice and finding the difference the easiest way about this?

Cedric YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 1838	Re: Time Delay Reply #1 - Nov 30th, 2009, 11:46pm   you actually only have to call it once as millis returns the milliseconds after the start. so if you write if(millis()<10000)function(); you function only works in the first 10 seconds and will be "deactivated" after that. if you search for timer you will find alot of other different timers but this should do what you need
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