My first switch statement

Thanks for all the help.  Just made a big improvement and I almost got it working.  There are only 2 problems now.  1 I have to hold the button down for about 2 or 3 seconds for it to switch subroutines.  I can deal with that but can I speed it up?  2. I made a note called "RIGHT HERE" I try to reset they count to 0.  It just keeps counting.  What did I do wrong?

int state=8;

int mi=9;

int lastState=LOW;

int lastbutton=LOW;

int countmi=0;

int countst=0;

int button=LOW;

int buttonst=LOW;

void setup()

{// open void setup

Serial.begin(9600);

pinMode(state, INPUT);//set pin 8

pinMode(mi, INPUT);//set pin 9

state=digitalRead(8);

button=digitalRead(9);

}//close void setup

void loop()

{//open void loop

if (buttonst==HIGH)

    {//open state count

    if (buttonst==10)buttonst==0;                    RIGHT HERE

     countst++;

    Serial.println(countst);

    Serial.print("state =");                      

    }//closes state count

  //   Serial.print(buttonst); 

           {// open switch

            switch(countst)

                   {//open case

                     case 0:

                     buttonst=0;

                     flasha();

                     break;

                     case 1:

                     buttonst=2;

                     flashb();

                     break;

                      case 2:

                     buttonst=3;

                     flashc();

                     break;

                    }// close case

          }//close switch

    lastState=buttonst;

    buttonst=digitalRead(8);

    if (button==HIGH && lastbutton==LOW)

        {// open mi count

        countmi++;

        Serial.println(countmi);

        }//close mi count

    lastbutton=button;

    button=digitalRead(9);

}//close void loop

  //open flasha

    void flasha()

    {

    int flasha;

    Serial.println("Hellow world");

delay (1000);

  }//close flasha

  void flashb()

  {// open flashb

    int flashb;

    delay(1000);

    Serial.println("Not gonna happen");

  }//close flashb

  void flashc()

  {

    int flashc;

    delay(1000);

    Serial.println("I did it");

  }

Good catch Billabot!

That fun difference between the double equal sign == (compare) and the single equal sign = (assign) never gets old, does it?

I'm a suspenders-and-belt guy myself so I usually use >=  just in case it advanced an extra buttonst count:

For the hard time pressing the button, it's because the delay(1000) calls halt execution for a full second while nothing else gets checked. See the "caveat" of the reference page: http://www.arduino.cc/en/Reference/delay

You'd have to change the code quite a bit to make it multitask to catch the button press (or maybe the button can be handled via an interrupt? I haven't tried that in Arduino yet). Here is the example Arduino.cc gives: http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/BlinkWithoutDelay

Hope that helps.

Cheers,

-Nico

Good catch Billabot!

That fun difference between the double equal sign == (compare) and the single equal sign = (assign) never gets old, does it?

I'm a suspenders-and-belt guy myself so I usually use >=  just in case it advanced an extra buttonst count:

For the hard time pressing the button, it's because the delay(1000) calls halt execution for a full second while nothing else gets checked. See the "caveat" of the reference page: http://www.arduino.cc/en/Reference/delay

You'd have to change the code quite a bit to make it multitask to catch the button press (or maybe the button can be handled via an interrupt? I haven't tried that in Arduino yet). Here is the example Arduino.cc gives: http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/BlinkWithoutDelay

Hope that helps.

Cheers,

-Nico