Newbie to pic but not electronics

[Techbuilder]

Ohh I get it that makes perfect sense

So all I would have to do is read the input

but say when I pressed the button I want the RB0 led to flash 4 times and RB1 led to flash 8 times when I press the button once.

How would that work?

[ALFRED]

Do you mean how would you have the different LEDs flash a different number of times depending on how many times you push the button? This could be accomplished by waiting for the input pin to go high then adding 1 to a pre-defined variable. You would then wait for the input pin to go low before monitoring the input for a high signal. After a pre-defined amount of time waiting for the high signal, the number of button pushes would be stored in the variable that holds the count.

[skimask]

Ohh I get it that makes perfect sense

So all I would have to do is read the input

but say when I pressed the button I want the RB0 led to flash 4 times and RB1 led to flash 8 times when I press the button once.

How would that work?

For/Next.....If/Then.....counters in a loop....thousand different ways of doing it.
Write some code, we'll dig thru it all...

[sougata]

Hi,

While PicBasic makes your life real easy I still recommend to study the internals of the PIC micro to get the most out of PBP. To get started try the link here http://techtrain.microchip.com/x14/ and view or download the flash based presentation. IMO it accelerates learning the PIC....

[Techbuilder]

Thank you very much everyone has been helpful

Although I was reading on the button command wouldn't that be the easiest way to go?

[skimask]

Although I was reading on the button command wouldn't that be the easiest way to go?

Not if you're just reading a single switch on a single port performing a single function...
Now if you're looking for functionality like auto-repeat, debouncing, sure, button may be the way to go.

[Techbuilder]

Gotcha I guess I will just go with IF, THEN , GO Statements
How exactly would that work

I know I would have to set LED to HIGH

but is this kind of how it would look

IF port.0=1 THEN
port.1 = high

Something like that?

[Techbuilder]

Here's a better constructed code I made then the one up

Button var PORTB.0 ' Push button
LED1 var PORTB.1 ' Led 1
LED2 var PORB.2 ' Led 2
Pushed var byte ' Variable will contain the byte
If PUSHED =1 Then ' If button is push
High LED1 ' Turn on the LED
IF PUSHED=0 Then
High LED2

Endif