Event for long time button-press?

[jobauer]

Hello everybody!

Is it possible to set different events in an event structure for the same button?

More precisely I want to have 2 events: the first if the button is pressed regular and a second if the button is pressed for more than 5 seconds.

I have been searching the forum but did not find and threats concerning this topic.

Thanks for your help!

[GerdW · Accepted solution]

Hi jo,

first event is generated by "value change" of that button. Store the current state of the button in a shift register.

2nd event is generated by using the TimeOut event: here you only need to check the current button state, if TRUE you can do your event handling code…

[jobauer]

Thank you GerdW for your replay!

First i solved it with this method i found by adding an case structure:

https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-11639

But actually your method works better!

Thanks

[jobauer]

Because you cannot add an event timeout if you use the method i just posted...

[GerdW]

Hi jo,

that example does just what it claims to: it calculates the time a button was pressed - after the button has been released.

You cannot use this for your task as you want to generate an event while the button is still pressed!
That's why I suggested to use "value change" and "TimeOut" events instead…

[jobauer]

Yes that was exactly my problem 🙂

[partial]

Dear jobauer, Dear GerdW,

Could you please post a runnable program which solves jobauers problem? I have some difficulties to adapt GerdWs solution to my program. So, I would be happy to see the code.

[GerdW]

Hi partial,

what kind of difficulties do you see?

What's the problem to incorporate two event cases in your code? How does your code look like?

[partial]

Hi GerdW,

Thanks for the quick reply.

At the moment I use in my code an event structure and test if there is a value change of my button. If there is a value change, some action will happen (some data will be deleted). This works fine so far.

Now I want that some other action will happen (more data will be deleted) if the same button is pressed for more than e.g. 5 s (the same action as before may still happen in this case).

I really do not understand how I can achieve this with the Timeout event and a check of the current button state.

I hope you understand my problem better now. If not, then I will try to write a simplified example code of my problem (the whole program is too complex to post here).

[GerdW]

Hi partial,

have your timeout event wait for 5s and check the button state in the timeout event. If the button state didn't change the user still presses the button…