Merge pull request #38 from Neradoc/better-button-class

Update Button class to match debouncer logic

Author: FoamyGuy

.gitignore

@@ -1,5 +1,18 @@
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 ladyada for Adafruit Industries
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Scott Shawcroft, written for Adafruit Industries
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Unlicense
 
 *.mpy
+.idea
+__pycache__
+_build
+*.pyc
+.env
+.python-version
+build*/
+bundles
+*.DS_Store
+.eggs
+dist
+**/*.egg-info
+.vscode

adafruit_debouncer.py

@@ -133,75 +133,89 @@ def current_duration(self):
 
 
 class Button(Debouncer):
-    """Debounce counter"""
+    """
+    Debouncer for buttons. Reports ``pressed`` and ``released`` for the button state.
+    Counts multiple short presses, allowing to detect double clicks, triple clicks, etc.
+    Reports long presses separately. A long press can immediately follow multiple clicks,
+    in which case the long click will be reported in the same update as the short clicks.
+
+    :param DigitalInOut/function pin: the DigitalIO or function to debounce.
+    :param int short_duration_ms: the maximum length of a short press in milliseconds.
+    :param int long_duration_ms: the minimum length of a long press in milliseconds.
+    :param bool value_when_pressed: the value of the predicate when the button is
+                                    pressed. Defaults to False (for pull up buttons).
+    """
 
     def __init__(
         self,
         pin,
         short_duration_ms=200,
         long_duration_ms=500,
-        active_down=True,
+        value_when_pressed=False,
         **kwargs
     ):
         self.short_duration_ms = short_duration_ms
         self.long_duration_ms = long_duration_ms
-        self.active_down = active_down
+        self.value_when_pressed = value_when_pressed
         self.last_change_ms = ticks_ms()
         self.short_counter = 0
         self.short_to_show = 0
         self.long_registered = False
-        self.long_showed = False
+        self.long_to_show = False
         super().__init__(pin, **kwargs)
 
-    def _pushed(self):
-        return (self.active_down and super().fell) or (
-            not self.active_down and super().rose
+    @property
+    def pressed(self):
+        """Return whether the button was pressed or not at the last update."""
+        return (self.value_when_pressed and self.rose) or (
+            not self.value_when_pressed and self.fell
         )
 
-    def _released(self):
-        return (self.active_down and super().rose) or (
-            not self.active_down and super().fell
+    @property
+    def released(self):
+        """Return whether the button was release or not at the last update."""
+        return (self.value_when_pressed and self.fell) or (
+            not self.value_when_pressed and self.rose
         )
 
     def update(self, new_state=None):
         super().update(new_state)
-        if self._pushed():
+        if self.pressed:
             self.last_change_ms = ticks_ms()
             self.short_counter = self.short_counter + 1
-        elif self._released():
+        elif self.released:
             self.last_change_ms = ticks_ms()
             if self.long_registered:
                 self.long_registered = False
-                self.long_showed = False
         else:
             duration = ticks_diff(ticks_ms(), self.last_change_ms)
             if (
                 not self.long_registered
-                and self.value != self.active_down
+                and self.value == self.value_when_pressed
                 and duration > self.long_duration_ms
             ):
                 self.long_registered = True
+                self.long_to_show = True
                 self.short_to_show = self.short_counter - 1
                 self.short_counter = 0
             elif (
                 self.short_counter > 0
-                and self.value == self.active_down
+                and self.value != self.value_when_pressed
                 and duration > self.short_duration_ms
             ):
                 self.short_to_show = self.short_counter
                 self.short_counter = 0
+            else:
+                self.long_to_show = False
+                self.short_to_show = 0
 
     @property
     def short_count(self):
-        """Return the number of short press"""
-        ret = self.short_to_show
-        self.short_to_show = 0
-        return ret
+        """Return the number of short press if a series of short presses has
+        ended at the last update."""
+        return self.short_to_show
 
     @property
     def long_press(self):
-        """Return whether long press has occured"""
-        if self.long_registered and not self.long_showed:
-            self.long_showed = True
-            return True
-        return False
+        """Return whether a long press has occured at the last update."""
+        return self.long_to_show

examples/debouncer_multi.py

@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@
 while True:
     switch.update()
     if switch.long_press:
-        print("long")
-    count = switch.short_count
-    if count != 0:
-        print("count=", count)
+        print("Long Press")
+    if switch.short_count != 0:
+        print("Short Press Count =", switch.short_count)
+    if switch.long_press and switch.short_count == 1:
+        print("That's a long double press !")