Request - Button hold, continually trigger action

[kevincannon]

I've a small feature request. In the Button object, there's a hold trigger. However, it only triggers after 500ms, and never again. Often press & hold is something where you need to repeatedly do the action like a keyboard. It woud be nice to have a repeat option built in.

http://johnny-five.io/api/button/

Something like this:

rightButton   = new five.Button({
pin:3,
isPullup: true,
holdtime: 200,
holdrepeat: true
});

button.on("hold", function() {
    console.log("hold");
});

Then you would get this as an output

hold
hold
hold

It would be neat if it was built in!

[rwaldron]

I like it and I think this might even be preferable as the default behavior? I won't be able to release b/c we're "frozen" until after Nodebots Day (this Saturday)—is that ok?

[Resseguie]

I like it too.

[kevincannon]

No rush at all, i've made a workaround for my needs for now, but built in would be even better :)

[rwaldron]

@kevincannon thanks for your patience!

[dtex]

Should this be a different event? Currently the hold event represents a state change. Also, we may want different behavior on that initial state change then we would want on the repeated firings of the event.

[dtex]

Never mind, I didn't really think that through. Hold is not a state change.

[rwaldron]

Also, we may want different behavior on that initial state change then we would want on the repeated firings of the event.

button.once("hold", ...)?

[Resseguie]

I like that @rwaldron

[kevincannon]

Wow guys - just checked that out, that's amazing. Thanks so much! :)

[rwaldron]

Thank you for filing.