[Matt Daioh]

Hi John,
You have the right idea with the programming.

We had a method like this for activating pneumatics

void ActivatePneumatics(Joystick *currStick, int buttonNum, int SolenoidNumberTurnOn, int SolenoidNumberTurnOff){
if(currStick->GetRawButton(buttonNum)){
m_solenoids[SolenoidNumberTurnOff]->Set(false);
m_solenoids[SolenoidNumberTurnOn]->Set(true);

When one action happens, turn on set of solenoids on and another off.
When we wanted to activate something using this method we structured it like this

ActivatePneumatics(m_rightStick, BUTTON_MINIBOT_OUT, SOLENOID_MINIBOT_OUT, SOLENOID_MINIBOT_IN);

Also, we established variables that represented the various buttons we would press in order to do turn on the various solenoids. You should design something like this that fits your needs

static const int SOLENOID_MINIBOT_OUT = 1;
static const int SOLENOID_MINIBOT_IN = 2;
static const int SOLENOID_CLAW_OPEN = 7;
static const int SOLENOID_CLAW_CLOSE = 8;

static const int BUTTON_MINIBOT_OUT = 6;
static const int BUTTON_MINIBOT_IN = 7;
static const int BUTTON_CLAW_OPEN = 1;
static const int BUTTON_CLAW_CLOSE = 2;

static const int NUM_SOLENOIDS = 8;
Solenoid *m_solenoids[(NUM_SOLENOIDS+1)];

I hope that helps. Do you have any more questions?