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Arduino Mege with Sainsmart "3.2" touchscreen interrupt

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Hi,

I'm new here and I have some questions about interrupts


I programmed a home screen on my sainsmart touchscreen(with 3 buttons) and when i presse one of them (so I open a new menu) I have a timer and 4 other buttons.


My problem:

when the timer is counting down i can't pressed the other buttons (they don't work) but when the timer finished (for ex 59 to 0 sec) then the buttons works.

I tried interrupts (so i can touch my buttons on the same time) but I think I use the interrupts the wrong way.


Can some one help me with my problem? thanks.

  • interrupts are a fundamental part of computer processors, they say that if something occurs stop everything, run this part of the code, and then return back to what you were doing

     

    imagine that your working on a report in the office and the phone rings from the bosses extension, that's an interrupt.

     

    AVR microcontrollers can accept many different interrupts from different locations, internal timers, or external influence. the bad thing is AVR micro's are pretty stupid and cant really tell what caused the interrupt, it just knows that something happened, so if you have 2 items using interrupts, it kindly runs them both.

     

    For example the TV out library uses timer interrupts so it can make the video timing signals, add the PS/2 keyboard library which uses external interrupts to note when the keyboard has data to send and the screen gets all goofy.  

     

    this explain is from the forum of arduino.cc

    http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,121017.0.html

     

    hopes it can help you.