How to move 2 motors at the same time using a controller

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So our team just got v5s this year, so I am new to programming. I’m trying to find out how to move 2 motors at the same time using a controller. I’ve found similar answers on here, but they are not what i’m looking for. I think what i’m supposed to use is a motor_group, but I can’t find out how to make the motors move when pressing a button.

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Try something like this:

if(Controller1.ButtonA.pressing()){
    motor1.spin(forward,50,pct);
    motor2.spin(forward,50,pct);
}

Or for the joysticks:

motor1.spin(forward,Controller1.axis3.value,pct);
motor2.spin(forward,Controller1.axis2.value,pct);

For motor_group, you can replace motor1 and motor2 from the previous statements with just the name of the motor group after initializing it like so:

motor_group motorgroupname(motor1, motor2);

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Also – all of that needs to be placed in a while loop for it to work.

while(1){

         if(Controller1.ButtonA.pressing()){
                motor1.spin(forward,50,pct);
                motor2.spin(forward,50,pct);
         }

        //OR

        motor1.spin(forward,Controller1.axis3.value,pct);
        motor2.spin(forward,Controller1.axis2.value,pct);


        task::sleep(20);
}
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