buttonState1' was not declared in this scope

[opelvectra]

hello everyone ,

i am trying to make a program just i getting a error . And i dont know why

#include <Arduino.h>


int greenLightPin = 6;
int redLightPin = 4;
int PinButton1 = 7;
int PinButton2 = 8;


void knipperled(int pinnummer, int aantalkeer,int delaytijd){    // functie  ===>(pinnummer variable) 
  for (int i=0;  i <= aantalkeer; i++){
    digitalWrite(pinnummer,HIGH);
    delay (delaytijd);
    digitalWrite(pinnummer,LOW);
  }
}



int geefafstand(){
  //welke parameter pinnummer 
   
}

void buzzer(){
  
}

void setup() {
  Serial.begin(9600);
  pinMode(greenLightPin, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(redLightPin, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(PinButton1, INPUT);
  pinMode(PinButton2, INPUT);
}

void loop(){ 

  buttonState1 = digitalRead(PinButton1);
  buttonState2 = digitalRead(PinButton2);
  
  if (buttonState1 == HIGH ){
    knipperled(greenLightPin,10,1000);
    
  }
  
  if (buttonState2 == HIGH ){
    knipperled(redLightPin,5,500);//VARIABLE //parameter (redLightPin,5,500) 
    
  }
}

[anon73444976]

@opelvectra

int buttonState1 = digitalRead(PinButton1);
 int buttonState2 = digitalRead(PinButton2);

This is not a tutorial

[paulpaulson]

Hello
You have to declare the variable in this case locally.

@opelvectra

  buttonState1 = digitalRead(PinButton1);
  buttonState2 = digitalRead(PinButton2);

change to

bool buttonState1 = digitalRead(PinButton1);
bool buttonState2 = digitalRead(PinButton2);

Have a nice day and enjoy coding in C++.

[opelvectra]

thank you all its working

[paulpaulson]

Hello
INT or BOOL ?

[opelvectra]

@ paulpaulson

i used int if that is correct

bool can only be used as true or false

[PerryBebbington]

@opelvectra

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[anon73444976]

Neither.
int.

[lastchancename]

@anon73444976

Neither.
int

…or bool (my choice in this example)

(- suggested because the C languages put a lot of emphasis in values being zero or non-zero…)

[anon73444976]

Why "bool"?

digitalRead doesn't return a bool.

Imagine the pin is an input, with pullup.
So, a closed switch returns LOW, or false in your parlance.
S'gonna make a nonsense of the naming of the variable you assign it to, dontcha think?

[paulpaulson]

Hello
You are right. The function digitalRead() will return either HIGH or LOW. These results can be interpreted as TRUE or FALSE.
Have a nice day and enjoy coding in C++.

[anon73444976]

@paulpaulson

These results can be interpreted as TRUE or FALSE.

...or even true or false, as they're more usually written.

[paulpaulson]

cheers

[lastchancename]

AWOL,
You’re absolutely right, and this unfortunately is where the Arduino school is teaching ‘half truths’ to beginners. (or half falses)

This falls back to the fundamental zero/non-zero case… false or true which emerged long before Arduino… simple tests in machine language to ‘branch’ in code.

Luckily the true/false test interprets the int (or other numeric type) to the correct state for the test.

It’s not ideal, but as long as the 0/1 test holds true, the language holds together.

I hate to think what would happen if this was changed in the C standard, maybe 80% of all C derived code would fail !