Hello guys
I've seen an NXC program that scans something and display it on the screen and i'm trying to do the same. After getting more into RobotC.

NXC code


I suppose that Pos is the position of the motor.
Is there a function or do you have any idea how to get the location of the motor?

What i want to do with it is by defining the width of the display
while scanning using light or color sensor, the value will be checked when the value apply to the condition i'm having it will locate the position of the motor and will do a simple equation which is
x = screen width - (position of the motor * screen width) / width of travelling area
something like that
i'll leave you the full NXC code and i hope you might able to help me with

Use this to get the tachometer reading from the motor.


Example:

NeXT-Gen is correct, the command you are looking for is 'nMotorEncoder'. This will let you read and write values for the specified motor. For instance, to clear the motor's encoder to a value of zero:


There are multiple ways to keep a motor running until an encoder value is reached; one of the more common ways is to use a while loop:



This will run motor A at a value of 50 power until it reaches 1000 encoder ticks; once 1000 encoder ticks are reached, the motors will turn off. Always make sure to either clear the encoders beforehand (or tweak your while loop condition accordingly) and to turn the motor off after the loop is over (if you want the motor to stop at that point).
You may notice that the motors drift past the desired encoder value by a bit; to avoid this, you will want to use the 'nMotorEncoderTarget' command:



To learn more about the encoder commands in ROBOTC, check out our NXT Motor Functions wiki page. You may also be interested in our [urlhttp://www.education.rec.ri.cmu.edu/previews/robot_c_products/teaching_rc_tetrix_preview/index.html]online curriculum video trainer[/url] which covers all of the basic ROBOTC commands and functions (including encoders and while loops).

Thanks guys
That was so helpful