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Subject: 
What is "Reset Event" for?
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Date: 
Sat, 27 Dec 2003 19:34:19 GMT
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What exactly does the Robolab "Reset Event" icon do?  Under what circumstances
would or should it be used?

The Robolab manual gives only a Microsoft-esque useless restatement of the name
of the icon: "Event This command resets monitoring for an event."  The context
help gives the only marginally better "This command resets monitoring for an
event."

Is this something to be used when:

A. You are reusing an event _modifier_ for a different purpose than the original
event it was used for, or
B. You are about to begin event monitoring _again_ for an event previously
monitored for, or
C. You are about to begin even monitoring and have monitored before, even if you
never monitored for that event before?

If my program always uses any given event modifier for the same purpose, but
just might do it more than once for a given event modifier (inside a loop, for
example), can I just set up the events once at the beginning of the program and
then use the "Start Monitoring" icon each time I want to begin watching?  Or, do
I have to use "Start Monitoring" the first time, and "Reset Event" every time
thereafter (implied by the help description saying "resets monitoring", but very
odd if true, because the "Reset Event" has terminals for "Events" and "Event
Source", just like the "Set up events" icons do, but without the threshhold
value terminal!)

So, when would the "Reset Event" icon get used?



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