[cstelter]

Originally Posted by Hawk_Prime

How would I go about just adding something where when you push a button on an xbox controller, a different motor goes? Thanks for the help!

Ultimately I think you'll want to get to

    ...
    SpeedController elevatorMotor;
    private static final int LIFT_BUTTON=1; //or whatever button raises
    private static final int LOWER_BUTTON=4; //or whatever button lowers
    
    ...
    public Robot() {
        ...
        elevatorMotor=new Talon(elevator);
        ...
    }

    public void operatorControl() {
        robotDrive.setSafetyEnabled(true);
        while (isOperatorControl() && isEnabled()) {
        	
        	// Use the joystick X axis for lateral movement, Y axis for forward movement, and Z axis for rotation.
        	// This sample does not use field-oriented drive, so the gyro input is set to zero.
            robotDrive.mecanumDrive_Cartesian(stick.getY(), stick.getX(), stick.getZ(), 0);
            

            if(stick.getRawButton(LIFT_BUTTON)) {
                 elevatorMotor.set(0.5);
            } else if(stick.getRawButton(LOWER_BUTTON)) {
                 elevatorMotor.set(-0.5);
            } else {
                 elevatorMotor.set(0);
            }
            
            Timer.delay(0.010);	// wait 5ms to avoid hogging CPU cycles
        }
    }

but to get there you need some variable representing a SpeedController such as I've shown as elevatorMotor. I showed the code if you use a Talon. If you use something else as Matt was asking about, that line would be different. If you need to call more than just the basic SpeedController interface on you Talon/Jaguar/TalonSRX/etc, you can make the line be

Talon elevatorMotor=new Talon(elevator);

Then if there is a Talon specific function that is not on the SpeedController interface, you can still call that too. Just trying to keep it simple for you.

I've not used xbox class so I don't know if getRawButton is best way to get buttons or not, or if mappings exist avoiding need for LIFT_BUTTON/LOWER_BUTTON, but using local names with explicit names for lift and lower help keep your code more understandable.