ROBOTC and the VEXnet Joystick

[Carter12s]

Hi, i am teaching a class this summer to a group of junior high school students about robotics. For the class we purchased 6 new Vex robot starter kits with the cortex microcomputer and the vex-net joystick. I am brand new to vex robots and robotc but i am having a great experience with it. The problem i have now is that i cannot find the proper notation for accessing button presses in ROBOTC. This is the code i am using right now

task usercontrol()
{
// User control code here, inside the loop

while (true)
{
motor[Left1] = vexRT[Ch3];
motor[Right1] = vexRT[Ch2];
motor[Arm1] = vexRT[ ???];

}
}

what i would like to do is define the motor[Arm1] to run off of button presses. I cannot find a chart showing the correct vexRT channels for the new vexNet joystick. does anyone have these?

[Rick TYler]

You'll get a much better response at www.vexforum.com.

[ttldomination]

This is very interesting as I have not seen any documentation for this. Usually the little inventor's guide inserts for the controllers are the most helpful, but I have asked your question here.

Furthermore, I did a little digging, and it seems that the document to calibrate the controller the buttons are being referred to as 6U, 7U, and 8U.

- Sunny