How to make timer keep runing while loop wait for another time result?

Question

i have the following issue in my code, i have this loop running on timer (this is just a small part of the loops that running on the big timer),

inside that big tim

Answer 1

tl;dr

Conventional Timers are not used in games. Games have a very different mechanism for handling their logic and the time that passed.

Long Version:

I know this may not answer your question directly, but it's way to much text to cramp into a comment. Your timers sound very complicated and hierarchical. From your variable names I will assume you are programming a game. Games normally don't work with timers or not in the way you would expect. This different game-like behaviour would help you a lot in your timers problem and may even help you more with your design in general.

Games normally have something called a game loop. Generally speaking it's three main functions that are called one after the other in a loop:

while(running)
{
    HandleUserInput();
    ChangeWorld();
    Render();
}

You get user input, you change the game world accordingly and you draw it to the screen. Now, the faster your computer is, the faster this loop runs. That's good for the graphics (think FPS), but bad for the game. Imagine Tetris where every frame the blocks move. Now I would not want to buy a faster computer, the game would get more difficult that way.

So to keep the game speed constant independent of the power of the computer, the loop considers the time passed:

while(running)
{
    var timePassedSinceLastLoop = CalculateTimeDelta();

    HandleUserInput();
    ChangeWorld(timePassedSinceLastLoop);
    Render();
}

Now imagine a cooldown for something in game. The player pressed "a", some cool action happened and although he may press "a" again, nothing will happen for the next 5 seconds. But the game still runs and does all the other things that may happen ingame. This is not a conventional timer. It's a variable, lets call it ActionCooldown, and once the player triggers the action, it's set to 5 seconds. Every time the world changes, the timePassed is subtracted from that number until it's zero. All the time, the game is running and handling input and rendering. But only once ActionCooldown hits zero, another press of "a" will trigger that action again.