Determine short/long pushbutton press from script

[edgars]

In case a pushbutton doesn't have a long press feature or you need to be more flexible with long press time, here is a script which will do the job.
In the settings specify "Send 1" on rising edge, "Send 0" on falling edge. And add the following event-based script:

Code:

resolution = 0.25 -- short press check resolution longpress = 5 -- long press time in seconds value = event.getvalue() if value then   timeout = longpress / resolution   -- wait for timeout or OFF signal   while timeout > 0 do      os.sleep(resolution)      timeout = timeout - 1        value = grp.getvalue(event.dst)      if not value then         break      end    end   if timeout > 0 then      alert('short press')   else      alert('long press')   end end

[gjniewenhuijse]

I think the second event.getvalue() needs to be replaced by grp.getvalue(event.dst), else the button release object is never received.

[admin]

True, though at the time of writing this script event.getvalue was an alias to grp.getvalue(event.dst). Later it was modified to make sure that original event value is returned to prevent race conditions.