Pins pressed/released confusion

[HelenFoster]

There are two blocks for pin-touch-related events: onPinPressed is CLICK and onPinReleased is UP.

As there are two blocks, and "pressed" and "released" can be opposites in natural language, there's a strong implication that these blocks have opposite actions. In reality, they do almost the same thing.

Adding the DOWN block would help with this, but naming it is a problem (as the other two have painted it into a corner).

The sprite here normally doesn't go anywhere, but we can make it move to the right with a long click:

let item: game.LedSprite = null
input.onPinPressed(TouchPin.P0, () => {
    item.change(LedSpriteProperty.X, -1)
})
input.onPinReleased(TouchPin.P0, () => {
    item.change(LedSpriteProperty.X, 1)
})
item = game.createSprite(2, 2)

[HelenFoster]

In the spirit of a minimal number of blocks: rather than add a block, maybe deprecate onPinReleased and implement #2463 to replace the removed functionality.

Something like this but with UP instead of CLICK:

(This code is a bit nasty, but only people with special requirements will care about the difference between UP and CLICK.)

let tmp = false
let item: game.LedSprite = null
control.onEvent(EventBusSource.MICROBIT_ID_IO_P0, EventBusValue.MICROBIT_BUTTON_EVT_CLICK, () => {
    item.change(LedSpriteProperty.X, 1)
})
item = game.createSprite(0, 2)
tmp = input.pinIsPressed(TouchPin.P0)

[riknoll]

Yep, that is very confusing. We don't remove blocks very often though. Maybe we should hide onPinReleased from the toolbox but still allow it in the editor so that we don't break any scripts.

[pelikhan]

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[HelenFoster]

Looks like onPinReleased is already in advanced. That makes it go onto the second page of Input blocks after the "more", right? (As a user, I didn't notice there was a difference between the two pages.)

If adding the other one, onPinTouched might be an OK name for it.

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