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roby1
roby1 over 9 years ago

Hi..i have a question, maybe a noob one for ppl who know. I have maked a counter each time when i press the button the counter increments with 1 and display on serial something like:

nr = 1, nr = 2, nr = 3 ...etc. What i wanna know and i have tryed over 4 days is how i diplay only once the value on a single line and each time when i count,  ""to somehow overwrite"" the existing value and displayng it like: ""nr = 1"" then on the same line 1 is replaced with 2..then with 3 and so on every time i count.  More simple, then same line remains unchanged and only the value get overrited (upgraded).

 

HERE IS THE CODE:

 

const int  buttonPin = 2;    // the pin that the pushbutton is attached to

const int ledPin = 10;       // the pin that the LED is attached to

 

 

// Variables will change:

int buttonPushCounter = 0;   // counter for the number of button presses

int buttonState = 0;         // current state of the button

int lastButtonState = 0;     // previous state of the button

 

 

void setup()

{

  pinMode(buttonPin, INPUT);

  pinMode(ledPin, OUTPUT);

  Serial.begin(9600);

}

 

 

 

 

void loop()

{

  buttonState = digitalRead(buttonPin);

 

 

  if (buttonState != lastButtonState)

  {

    if (buttonState == HIGH)

    {

      buttonPushCounter++;

      Serial.println("on");

      Serial.print("number of button pushes: ");

      Serial.println(buttonPushCounter);

      Serial.write('\n');

      Serial.write('\r');

    }

    // Delay a little bit to avoid bouncing

    delay(50);

  }

  // save the current state as the last state, for next time through the loop

  lastButtonState = buttonState;

 

 

  if (buttonPushCounter % 4 == 0) {

    digitalWrite(ledPin, HIGH);

  } else {

    digitalWrite(ledPin, LOW);

  }

  Serial.flush();

  Serial.end();

  Serial.begin(9600);

  Serial.flush();

}

 

 

and i get something like this on serial:

 

on

number of button pushes = 1

on

number of button pushes = 2

on

number of button pushes = 3

on

number of button pushes = 4

on

number of button pushes = 5

 

etc.

 

and i want to get:

on

number of button pushes = 1 ----- and on this line 1 to be replaced with 2 at the next count, then with 3 and so on..

 

I have tryed Serial.print( '\r' )  for carryege return but didnt workt.

 

Can someone tell me where im wrong?? Or what i need to print so see what i want.

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  • RParkerE
    RParkerE over 9 years ago

    You cannot do this with the Arduino IDE, it just does not support this functionality.

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