Button/switch debouncing

[Patrick Pending]

Hi Melanie, thanks.

I understand what you are saying, but don't understand whether you answered my question

You don't HAVE to use any of PICBasics commands...

- Clearly, but that would leave me with, ...with, ..................ASSEMBLER! :0

[Melanie]

Clearly, but that would leave me with, ...with, ..................ASSEMBLER!

No it wouldn't... take this thread topic as an example...

First here's a couple of defines...

	MyButton var PortB.0
	ButtonTemp var Byte

Now check this code...

	ButtonTemp=0
	BUTTON MyButton,0,255,0,ButtonTemp,1,ExecuteButton

Look at the above code... it's almost the same as...

	IF MyButton=0 then
		Pause 10
		Goto ExecuteButton
		Endif

The salient difference is that the example with the IF statement doesn't require a dummy variable for it's exclusive use.

Compile both examples... tell me which one uses more codespace? Both exclusively use PBP, neither uses any Assembler.

When I say "Learn how to access and manipulate PICs Registers", - you're probably already doing it. To disable Comparators on may PICs you need to set...

	CMCON=7

Well, that statement has preset the CMCON register with a value of 7 (ie CMCON=%00000111). So now, what's so difficult about dropping a byte into the appropriate USART Register instead of using HSEROUT?