Getting constant motor power with IR board

[Nightfall831]

today i put the ir board on our robot after some preliminary testing and I have managed to get the robot to respond to the IR signals sent to the IR board.

however, the motors only run for as long as the IR board recieves a signal (less than a second)

our current code looks something like

if (rc_dig_in01)
     {
          pwm03 = pwm04 = 1;
          pwm07 = pwm08 = 255;
     }

i am not surprised at the result i am getting, but all attempts to create constant motion have failed. the only way i can think of is to have the remote cause a variable to be "true" and so that

while (variable = true)
     {
          pwm03 = pwm04 = 1;
          pwm07 = pwm08 = 255;
     }

or something to that effect

any suggestions?