Hi All,

I was wondering if my code below can be made to be a bit better.  It works fine as is, but just seems to be a bit clunky to me.  In a nutshell what I'm doing here is checking two buttons on port A, turning off/on the motor and if one button is pressed, that dictates motor direction.  I'm wondering if there's a way without using the temporary register "button_status" to check the the two bits I'm looking at.

movlw b'00001100'
andwf PORTA,W                           ;mask all but the RA2,3 bits
movwf button_status
movlw b'00001100'
xorwf button_status,w
btfsc STATUS,Z                          ;are both buttons pressed?
goto stopmotor                          ;yes, stop the motor
movlw b'00001100'
andwf button_status,w
btfsc STATUS,Z                          ;are both buttons not pressed?
goto stopmotor                          ;yes, stop the motor
btfsc PORTA,2                           ;check if up button is on
goto motorup
btfsc PORTA,3                           ;check if down button is on
goto motordown

Regards,
Bob

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