Restart Switch

VEX V5 General Discussion
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I would like to program my bump switch to restart my entire program whenever it is touched. Does anyone know how to code something like this?

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is this for driver control or autonomous?

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autonomous

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Put your autonomous code inside the user control task, inside an if statement checking for a bump switch press.
Edit: you would also want a while statement to restart auton while its running. so…


if (button == 1)
{
while (button == 0)
{
// auton code
}
}
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you can also start the autonomous task in driver control to just run the autonomous function without having to change your code in two places in your program

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As written, noting that it takes time to touch and release a switch, wouldn’t that do nothing? You touch the switch to trigger the if statement (button == 1). Now you hit the while loop and button is still 1 since it takes a tiny fraction of a second for the computer to move to the next step, so button==0 returns false and exits the while loop on the first attempt. If C ran the loop before checking the condition, that would be something else, but C checks the condition first. I’m tired after a roughly 13-hour work day with a few hours of chores on top of it, so maybe I’m just not reading well right now.

If you’re just trying to run all your autonomous code on a button press and then return to joystick control (edit: same as @roboeagle15 was suggesting as I wrote):

while (true)
{
if(button==1)
{
// Place autonomous code here.
}
// Place any other checks you want, like joystick controls here or before checking “button”.
delay(20);
}

If you have code after autonomous before the infinite while loop in remote control that you want to also run, you’ll have to do it a little differently, but you could just drop that in the end of the autonomous code above.

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