arcade button returns too many values

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Hello,
I am new to Arduino and I am experimenting with an Arduino Uno. I connected a button and have its data send to a Flash application with standardFirmata for communication.
With the small bread board buttons (from a starter kit) I get a perfect value (one time per push/release). However when I connect an arcade button it returns the value 4 to 10 times per push/release. What's the difference? Do I need to build in some sort of delay?
I know I can build some input check in Actionscript to eliminate the 'extra' data but I guess there's a more 'logic' way
Hope somebody can help me out with this.

Thanks,
JW

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I debounce with the bounce2 library.

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I debounce with the bounce2 library.

Which is not part of Firmata.

The debouncing needs to be done by the Flash program.

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Hello, PaulS and JimboZa thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Up until today I didn't know about bouncing. It's logic. Now I need to figure out if I going to solve it via hardware or software. Thanks!