Reading Joystick values

Access to the joystick is done in a similar way to ROBOTC but with a few extensions.

vexControllerGet( tCtlIndex index )

index can either be an analog channel or button name, these are the definitions.

index	joystick function
Ch1	Analog channel 1
Ch2	Analog channel 2
Ch3	Analog channel 3
Ch4	Analog channel 4
Btn5U	Button 5 Up
Btn5D	Button 5 Down
Btn6U	Button 6 Up
Btn6D	Button 6 Down
Btn7U	Button 8 Up
Btn7D	Button 8 Down
Btn7L	Button 8 Left
Btn7R	Button 8 Right
Btn8U	Button 8 Up
Btn8D	Button 8 Down
Btn8L	Button 8 Left
Btn8R	Button 8 Right
AcclX	Accelerometer X axis
AcclY	Accelerometer Y axis
AcclZ	Accelerometer Z axis (not used)
Btn5	Btn5U or Btn5D
Btn6	Btn6U or Btn6D
Btn7	Btn7U or Btn7D or Btn7L or Btn8R
Btn8	Btn8U or Btn8D or Btn8L or Btn8R
BtnAny	Any button

To access the second controller append Xmtr2 to any of the index names, eg. Btn8UXmtr2.

Buttons will return 1 (pressed) or 0 (not pressed).

Analog joystick values are in the range -127 to +127.