VEX V5 code and brain connection

[Robo_Chicken]

Are you sure you are running the program they uploaded onto the brain, or are they hitting “drive”. Drive is the default program and not the one they put on there…

As for the “A button” issue, I belive this could be because of this line

@browne

        robotDrive.turnFor( 90, degrees );
        // wait for it to be done
        while( robotDrive.isMoving() )
          wait( 10, timeUnits::msec );

You don’t need that while loop because the “turnFor” function automatically waits until completion to advance. So take out the while loop.

But to be honest I think a callback would be better suited here. Check out this thread.

@jpearman

using namespace vex;

// just for the example ......
vex::motor IntakeL(PORT1);
vex::motor IntakeR(PORT2);
vex::controller Controller;

void spinIntakes() {
     IntakeL.spin(forward);
     IntakeR.spin(forward);
}

void usercontrol() {
    while(true) {
      //user code here
    
      // sleep a while
      this_thread::sleep_for(20);
    }
}

int main(){
    // register callbacks once only...
    Controller.ButtonL1.pressed( spinIntakes );

    while(true){
      // perhaps something can happen here

      // sleep a while
      this_thread::sleep_for(20);
    }
}