Counting Button Pushes

What is the best method of counting button pushes for a 'Mode' Select.

I have three buttons which are used in a SELECT CASE routine.

What i would like is say when button 2 is pushed this then sets a MODE.

Then depending on the amount of times that button is pushed within a three second period, defines what happens next.

So from the start, pushing button 2 once goes to routine 1, pushing it twice goes to routine 2 and pushing 3 times goes to routine 3.

What is the most reliable method of doing this, anyone used this kind of taks before in a project.

Many thanks.

Hi Tissy,

Here's a possibility.   If you do the "De-bouncing" in hardware,
http://www.darreltaylor.com/files/debounce.GIF
then you can use the COUNT command

Code:

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Button2 VAR PORTC.0    ' use a pin with Schmitt Trigger input
Presses VAR BYTE
Down CON 0

Main:
    if Button2 = Down THEN
        WHILE Button2 = Down : WEND
'        Mode = Something
        COUNT  Button2, 3000, Presses
        BRANCHL Presses,[routine0, routine1, routine2, routine3]
        GOTO routine0
    endif
GOTO Main

'--------------
routine0:        ' button was not pressed again
                ' or pressed more than 3 times
GOTO Main

'--------------
routine1:        ' pressed once

GOTO Main

'--------------
routine2:        ' pressed twice

GOTO Main

'--------------
routine3:        ' pressed thrice

GOTO Main

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