Closer View of the WAIT-for-SENSOR blocks
In the Common palette description (see earlier post) there was one item that wasn't shown. The WAIT toolbar item (hourglass, 5th down from top) has a flyout menu shown here:
Wait until the Touch Sensor is triggered.
Wait until the Light Sensor is triggered.
Wait until the Sound Sensor is triggered.
Wait until the Ultrasonic Sensor is triggered.
Wait for Time. (you specify time in seconds)
Wait for NXT Button to be pressed.
Wait for Receive Message (BT).
Wait for Timer (can use 1 of 3 internal timers)
Wait until the Touch Sensor is triggered.
Wait until the Light Sensor is triggered.
Wait until the Sound Sensor is triggered.
Wait until the Ultrasonic Sensor is triggered.
Wait for Time. (you specify time in seconds)
Wait for NXT Button to be pressed.
Wait for Receive Message (BT).
Wait for Timer (can use 1 of 3 internal timers)
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Thanks Jim! Looking forward to seeing how you can have two simultaneous tasks running, and how you can get them to interact...
Selecting Time changes it to the generic "Time" block where the block waits for a set period of time... Selecting Sensor allows you to access the 2nd drop down which gives you these selections:
Light Sensor
NXT Buttons
Receive Message
Rotation Sensor
Sound Sensor
Timer
Touch Sensor
Ultrasonic Sensor
From the fly-out menu, the only blocks that aren't available by default are the NXT Buttons, Receive Message, and Rotation Sensor... these you have to select from the drop-down menu after dropping in another WAIT-for-Sensor block. I don't know why these 3 aren't shown as blocks to drop-in other than the fly-out menu would have 8 items in it and that might be more than the programmers wanted to have visible in a fly-out menu.
NXT buttons implies some kind of input capability.
Rotation Sensors will usually be handled directly with the motor 'behind the scenes' from what I can tell.
Bluetooth Messaging is by definition advanced, most bots won't even be aware that they can do such things.
Thanks for the followup!
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Brian Davis