Trying to program joystick buttons

[bladetech932]

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[Durham86]

As of right now we have our buttons set up to momentary. What we want it to do is latch so that when you hit one button the cylinder will shoot out and when we hit the same button it will retract. So basically what I am asking is how do you set that up programming wise.

[JamesBrown]

Originally Posted by Durham86

As of right now we have our buttons set up to momentary. What we want it to do is latch so that when you hit one button the cylinder will shoot out and when we hit the same button it will retract. So basically what I am asking is how do you set that up programming wise.

NI provided an example of this. Check out :

Program Files >> National Instruments >> LabVIEW 8.6 >> examples >> FRC >> Driver Station Inputs >> Joystick Button Latching >> Joystick Button Latching.vi

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by Durham86

What we want it to do is latch so that when you hit one button the cylinder will shoot out and when we hit the same button it will retract.

Please reconsider that decision. "Toggle" functions are not hard to do (in LabVIEW, C++, or any language), but they are rarely good driver interface design.