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Re: encoders

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Originally Posted by cbolin
Stephen,
Regarding your first code posting
Code:
static long lec = 0;            //lec = encoder count
Did someone explain that if you initialize "lec" every time this function is called, it will always be zerod? You could get rid of the 'lec = 0'...that way it would always remember the last value (which is what you were trying to do).
Actually, Chuck, because lec is declared static, it will only be initialized once, not every time the function is called.
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