Brake Hold Toggle

[CaptainOrangeJuice]

I’ve coded our team’s bot to set the motors to brake type hold to avoid being pushed if the driver presses the down arrow button, but I can’t figure out how to make it stop holding either when the driver lets go or presses it again, like a toggle. This is my code so far, but it would prevent the bot from being driven:

if (Controller1.ButtonDown.pressing() == true) {
      if (holdToggle == false) {
        holdToggle = true;
      } else {
        holdToggle = false;
      }
}
if (holdToggle == true) {
      Fl.stop(hold);
      Fr.stop(hold);
      Bl.stop(hold);
      Br.stop(hold);
    } else {
      Fl.stop(coast);
      Fr.stop(coast);
      Bl.stop(coast);
      Br.stop(coast);
}

[sadan]

note the brain screen update thread was just while i was testing it.

[sadan]

this might help, replace the boolean assignment with brake /velocity code for your motors.

bool go = true;
int updateBrainScreen(){
    while(1){
        Brain.Screen.setCursor(2,0);
        Brain.Screen.clearLine();
        Brain.Screen.print(go);
        vex::this_thread::sleep_for(500);
    }
    return -1;
}
void brakePress(){
    go = false;
}
void brakeUnPress(){
go = true;
}
void test(){
myController.ButtonUp.pressed(brakePress);
myController.ButtonUp.released(brakeUnPress);
    vex::thread brainUpdateLoop(updateBrainScreen);
}

[iseau395]

The logic looks like it should work, I think the problems is that the stop function sets the motor speed to zero. I think the function you are looking for is setStopping, which doesn’t stop the motor but tells it how to behave when it does stop.