hello.

I am trying to code my robot's lift to behave differently based on whether I press the selected button once or I just hold the button in. I understand how to code the If statements for performing various actions, but I cannot figure out how to code a check for two button touches in a set time versus holding the button.

thanks for your help on this.

This is a perfect case of how psuedocode can ease the programming process. In essence you want to:

Check IF a button is pressed, WAIT a certain amount of time, and IF the button is pressed still execute some code; ELSE, execute some other code. Putting this in psuedocode format will net us:



From here, you should be able to add in the actual code to suit your specific setup (depending on if/what the sensor names are, for instance). One thing to note that this code will probably need to be up in a loop, and you will have to make sure that the wait command isn't too large (otherwise it will halt the program upon button press for x amount of time, where x is the time specified in the wait command.

So i understand that pseudocode. Two issues. in the first iff statement I am checking to see if the button is still pushed. I think that that state should be in the else because the condition where I have pressed once then pressed again to stimulate a special behavior is more restrictive.

The pseudocode for just that segment must be something like this:

IF (button pushed and released)
{
check to see if button is pressed again within a set amount of time (in my case if I were to press the button a second time, I would cause the lift to operate until a limit switch is activated - limit switch code is already done)
}

Else if (button pressed and held for a longer time)
{
Perform a standard function (in my case this would be to move the lift up until i release the button)

else
{
do nothing
}
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so you can see that there has to be some sort of timer to check against, but I can't get my head around the test that would allow me to check if a button were pressed then released then repressed and released. This is similar to a mouse double click on a computer, but not being a programmer per se, i don't know how that code works let alone knowing how to make it work in RobotC.

Thank you,