In this post I show how to control the GPIO on a Raspberry Pi using a touchscreen.
This is a follow up on my previous post Programming for a Touchscreen on the Raspberry Pi

The TFT doesn’t come up too well in the above video. The picture below gives a better idea of how it looks. Click to enlarge

Link to the code;
https://github.com/mwilliams03/Pi-Touchscreen-basic.git

In the above code touchbuttons.c creates three buttons on the TFT which will be used to turn on/off three LEDs.

This can easily be changed to add more buttons.
touchbuttons.c also requires WiringPI and needs to be compiled with gcc -g -o buttonExample buttonExample.c -l wiringPi

When a touch event happens, the coordinates returned from the touchscreen are compared to the coordinates of the buttons.

If the touch event happens within one of the buttons, it raises or lowers the GPIO pin assigned to this button.

I have created variables to track the current state of each button and then used a timer to only allow a button state to change after 500ms. This allows plenty of time to lift your finger off the touchscreen before the touchscreen thinks it is another event happening.

A snippit of the code for one of the buttons;

                //See if the results retuned by the touch event fall within the coordination.s of the button
                if((scaledX  > buttonCords2[X] && scaledX < (buttonCords2[X]+buttonCords2[W])) && (scaledY > buttonCords2[Y] && scaledY < (buttonCords2[Y]+butt$
                        //Has 500ms passed since the last time this button was pressed?
                        if (mymillis() - buttonTimer2 > 500)
                                //Is the button currently on? If so, we need to turn it off.
                                if(button2){
                                        //Change color to a darker red
                                        createButton(buttonCords2[X],buttonCords2[Y],buttonCords2[W],buttonCords2[H],"RED",GREY,RED);
                                        //Change state to off
                                        button2= BUTTON_OFF;
                                        //Start the timer
                                        buttonTimer2 = mymillis();
                                        //Turn the LED off
                                        digitalWrite(LED_RED,LOW);
                                }
                                else{
                                        //The button must be off.. so we need to turn it on.
                                        createButton(buttonCords2[X],buttonCords2[Y],buttonCords2[W],buttonCords2[H],"RED",WHITE,LIGHT_RED);
                                        //Change state to on
                                        button2= BUTTON_ON;
                                        //Start the timer
                                        buttonTimer2 = mymillis();
                                        //Turn the LED on
                                        digitalWrite(LED_RED,HIGH);
                                }

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