Pressed Function Coding

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How do I create a function where if I press a certain button, the motor keeps spinning until I press another button. (Pressed Function)

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// (in while loop)
if(controller.button.pressing()){
  spin = true;
}
if(controller.otherbutton.pressing()){
  spin = false;
}
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You can also do something like this.

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I would make a function like


bool motorState = false;

void toggleMotor(){
    motorState = !motorState;
    if(motorState){
        motor.spin(forward);
    } else{
         motor.stop();
   }
}

Then call this when the button is pressed

This is not the best way of doing it I think

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I looked through your code and I saw that you independently called each indexer instead you could use motor groups like this

motorgroup indexers = motorgroup(indexer1, indexer2)

Then use it like 1 motor

Edit: fixed typo

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Oh thanks that is amazing. I had no clue you could do that

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Would you put that in where you set up the configuration at the top?

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Yes, you would put this after you set up motors or with your variables.

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Oh ok. I will try it.

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Where you say in while loop, does that mean it has its own while loop? Meaning that I have a while loop for all of my code and one while loop for my function?

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You just need to be checking that snippet regularly to check if the button is being pressed. That could mean having your entire code in a while loop or multithreading the function in a loop

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