Distinguishing length of button presses?

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#1

Is there a way to distinguish between quickly pressing a button and holding it down?

#2

you can use a timer to measure how long the button was held down, here’s an example.

task main()
{
  while(true) {
    wait1Msec(20);
    
    // detect button press
    if( vexRT Btn8D ] == 1 ) {
      // reset timer to 0
      clearTimer( T1 );
      
      // wait for button release
      while( vexRT Btn8D ] == 1 ) {
        wait1Msec(5);
      }
      
      // how long was press ? more than 1/2 second ?
      if( time1[T1] > 500 ) {
        writeDebugStreamLine("long press");
      }
      else {
        writeDebugStreamLine("short press");
      }
    }
  }
}
#3