This is the description of the Visual Basic .NET API bindings for the Dual Button Bricklet. General information and technical specifications for the Dual Button Bricklet are summarized in its hardware description.
An installation guide for the Visual Basic .NET API bindings is part of their general description.
The example code below is Public Domain (CC0 1.0).
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Module ExampleCallback
Const HOST As String = "localhost"
Const PORT As Integer = 4223
Const UID As String = "XYZ" ' Change to your UID
' Callback function for state changed callback
Sub StateChangedCB(ByVal sender As BrickletDualButton, ByVal buttonL As Byte, ByVal buttonR As Byte, ByVal ledL As Byte, ByVal ledR As Byte)
If buttonL = BrickletDualButton.BUTTON_STATE_PRESSED Then
System.Console.WriteLine("Left button pressed")
Else
System.Console.WriteLine("Left button released")
End If
If buttonR = BrickletDualButton.BUTTON_STATE_PRESSED Then
System.Console.WriteLine("Right button pressed")
Else
System.Console.WriteLine("Right button released")
End If
System.Console.WriteLine("")
End Sub
Sub Main()
Dim ipcon As New IPConnection() ' Create IP connection
Dim db As New BrickletDualButton(UID, ipcon) ' Create device object
ipcon.Connect(HOST, PORT) ' Connect to brickd
' Don't use device before ipcon is connected
' Register state changed callback to function StateChangedCB
AddHandler db.StateChanged, AddressOf StateChangedCB
System.Console.WriteLine("Press key to exit")
System.Console.ReadLine()
ipcon.Disconnect()
End Sub
End Module
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Since Visual Basic .NET does not support multiple return values directly, we use the ByRef keyword to return multiple values from a function.
All functions and procedures listed below are thread-safe.
Creates an object with the unique device ID uid:
Dim dualButton As New BrickletDualButton("YOUR_DEVICE_UID", ipcon)
This object can then be used after the IP Connection is connected (see examples above).
Sets the state of the LEDs. Possible states are:
In auto toggle mode the LED is toggled automatically at each press of a button.
If you just want to set one of the LEDs and don't know the current state of the other LED, you can get the state with GetLEDState() or you can use SetSelectedLEDState().
The default value is (1, 1).
The following constants are available for this function:
Returns the current state of the LEDs, as set by SetLEDState().
The following constants are available for this function:
Returns the current state for both buttons. Possible states are:
The following constants are available for this function:
Sets the state of the selected LED (0 or 1).
The other LED remains untouched.
The following constants are available for this function:
Returns the version of the API definition (major, minor, revision) implemented by this API bindings. This is neither the release version of this API bindings nor does it tell you anything about the represented Brick or Bricklet.
Returns the response expected flag for the function specified by the function ID parameter. It is true if the function is expected to send a response, false otherwise.
For getter functions this is enabled by default and cannot be disabled, because those functions will always send a response. For callback configuration functions it is enabled by default too, but can be disabled by SetResponseExpected(). For setter functions it is disabled by default and can be enabled.
Enabling the response expected flag for a setter function allows to detect timeouts and other error conditions calls of this setter as well. The device will then send a response for this purpose. If this flag is disabled for a setter function then no response is send and errors are silently ignored, because they cannot be detected.
See SetResponseExpected() for the list of function ID constants available for this function.
Changes the response expected flag of the function specified by the function ID parameter. This flag can only be changed for setter (default value: false) and callback configuration functions (default value: true). For getter functions it is always enabled and callbacks it is always disabled.
Enabling the response expected flag for a setter function allows to detect timeouts and other error conditions calls of this setter as well. The device will then send a response for this purpose. If this flag is disabled for a setter function then no response is send and errors are silently ignored, because they cannot be detected.
The following function ID constants are available for this function:
Changes the response expected flag for all setter and callback configuration functions of this device at once.
Returns the UID, the UID where the Bricklet is connected to, the position, the hardware and firmware version as well as the device identifier.
The position can be 'a', 'b', 'c' or 'd'.
The device identifier numbers can be found here. There is also a constant for the device identifier of this Bricklet.
Callbacks can be registered to receive time critical or recurring data from the device. The registration is done by assigning a procedure to an callback property of the device object:
Sub Callback(ByVal sender As BrickletDualButton, ByVal value As Short) Console.WriteLine("Value: {0}", value) End Sub AddHandler dualButton.Example, AddressOf Callback
The available callback property and their type of parameters are described below.
Note
Using callbacks for recurring events is always preferred compared to using getters. It will use less USB bandwidth and the latency will be a lot better, since there is no round trip time.
This callback is called whenever a button is pressed.
Possible states for buttons are:
Possible states for LEDs are:
The following constants are available for this function:
This constant is used to identify a Dual Button Bricklet.
The GetIdentity() function and the EnumerateCallback callback of the IP Connection have a deviceIdentifier parameter to specify the Brick's or Bricklet's type.