will this work for dedecting a held button?

[mister_e]

OK, i missread the thing. Well at least you'd understand the core of the code. Now here's the modified version that will DO a routine if a button is pressed for more than TimeoutDelay on the pins 0, 2, 4 and 5. Kill me if i'm still wrong.. well try to

    ' PIC12f629
    ' Push-button attach to GPIO 0, 2, 4 and 5 between i/o and VCC
    '
    ' it assume you'd previously disable all analog stuff and MCLR pin    
    '
    aPushButton  var byte
    PushButton   var byte
    Delay        var Word
    TimeoutDelay con 100  ' Here you select Your own delay (100=1 Second)
    
Start:
      clear                        ' reset all variable to 0
      apushbutton=GPIO & %00110101 ' read all GPIO pins
                                   ' keep only GPIO 0,2,4,5 bits
                                   '     ----- HOW? -----
                                   '     By masking the unused bits with
                                   '     a bitwise AND
                                   '
      if apushbutton=0 then start  ' no push button pressed, sit and spin
      pushbutton=apushbutton       ' Store the push button press
                                   '
      while (apushbutton!=0) or (delay!=TimeoutDelay) ' Wait untill the timeout happen 
                                                      '    or push Button release
             apushbutton=GPIO & %00110101
             pause 10
             delay=delay+1
             wend
             
      pause 50 ' debounce delay       

      if DELAY=timeoutdelay then ' if push button is press for 1 second
         '
         '    PushButton handling section
         '    ===========================
         '    We'd read the whole GPIO and set the un-assign bit to 0
         '    Push button are attach to GPIO 0,2,4,5.  Result is store in 
         '    PushButton variable
         '
         Select case PushButton
                case %00000001
                     gosub PushButtonGPIO_0
                     
                case %00000100
                     gosub PushButtonGPIO_2
                     
                case %00010000
                     gosub PushButtonGPIO_4
                     
                case %00100000
                     gosub PushButtonGPIO_5
                     
                end select
         endif
      goto start