Button Toggle - Vex Code

[ecook]

Hope y’all are well.

I have been struggling with turning the button into a toggle for way too long now in vex code.

What I’m wanting to do is press a button turn on a motor. Press the button again turn motor off.
Basically like a light switch.

In robotC that looked like this:

task main()
{
while(true)
{
untilBump(bumpSwitch, 300);
startMotor(leftMotor, 100);
untilBump(bumpSwitch, 300);
stopMotor(leftMotor);
}
}

I need to be able to count now. I don’t understand that process. If someone could help me out it would be very much appreciated.

[nikaash]

bool toggle = false;
if (Bumper.pressing){
if (!(toggle)){
toggle = true;}
else if (toggle){
toggle = false;}
while (Bumper.pressing){
wait(1, msec);}}
if (toggle){
motor.spin();}
else if (!(toggle)){
motor.stop();}

[ecook]

Here is what I have using your program. I’m still not successful. Is there anything you see that would be causing an issue? All my ports are in the correct location and tested using a working program.

int main(){
// Initializing Robot Configuration. DO NOT REMOVE!
vexcodeInit();

bool toggle = false;

if (BumperA.pressing()) {
if (!(toggle)) {
toggle = true;
}
else if (toggle) {
toggle = false;
}
while (BumperA.pressing()) {
wait(1, msec);
}
}
if (toggle){
leftMotor.spin(forward);
} else if (!(toggle)) {
leftMotor.stop();
}
}

[sazrocks]

All that code needs to be placed in your main control loop, it doesn’t work if you just run it once.

[Hudsonville_Robotics]

You do need a while loop around the whole code so it continues to run the program. I think that you also need a latch to prevent the toggle from flipping back and forth over every loop.

int main(){
// Initializing Robot Configuration. DO NOT REMOVE!
vexcodeInit();

bool toggle = false;
bool latch = false;

while(true){

  if (toggle){
    leftMotor.spin(forward);
  } else {
    leftMotor.stop();
  }

  if (BumperA.pressing()) {
    if(!latch){ //flip the toggle one time and set the latch
      toggle = !toggle;
      latch = true;
    }
  } else {
    //Once the BumperA is released then then release the latch too
    latch = false;
  }

  wait(20, msec);
}

[ecook]

Yes! it works! Thank you so much!

[nikaash]

all that should be in a while(1) loop

[nikaash]

i added the wait while button is pressing so it doesn’t flip back and fourth