gamepadshift – Tracks button presses read through a shift register.

Note

gamepadshift is deprecated in CircuitPython 7.0.0 and will be removed in 8.0.0. Use keypad instead.

Available on these boards
  • Adafruit EdgeBadge
  • Adafruit PyGamer
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  • Swan R5
  • The Open Book Feather

class gamepadshift.GamePadShift(clock: digitalio.DigitalInOut, data: digitalio.DigitalInOut, latch: digitalio.DigitalInOut)

Scan buttons for presses through a shift register

Initializes button scanning routines.

The clock, data and latch parameters are DigitalInOut objects connected to the shift register controlling the buttons.

The button presses are accumulated, until the get_pressed method is called, at which point the button state is cleared, and the new button presses start to be recorded.

Only one gamepadshift.GamePadShift may be used at a time.

get_pressed() → int

Get the status of buttons pressed since the last call and clear it.

Returns an 8-bit number, with bits that correspond to buttons, which have been pressed (or held down) since the last call to this function set to 1, and the remaining bits set to 0. Then it clears the button state, so that new button presses (or buttons that are held down) can be recorded for the next call.

deinit() → None

Disable button scanning.