Hi all,

So as you may have guessed, I'm working on some rotary encoder routines in =
XC8.

I've been looking around, and I've actually found a pretty neat
Arduino library. It handles the encoder, acceleration (values change
faster if you spin faster), encoder switch status (click, double
click, held, etc). I'm considering trying to port it to XC8 as I think
it would be useful, but also a really good exercise in coding.

I have no Arduino experience, but from what I've been reading, it
appears that in their ecosystem you can define multiple instances of a
class. So in my case if I made one routine that dealt with a single
encoder, I could create 2 instances to deal with 2 encoders, etc. As
far as I understand it, I can't do that in straight C.

So, what is the preferred way of dealing with this? I could make the
original function deal with total number of encoders that I have. Or I
could make multiple copies of a function that dealt with a single
encoder. In both cases I'll need to deal with variables carefully.

Is there another (possibly better) way? I'm interested in this in the
abstract as eventually I will likely run into this situation with
other routines (switch debounce, for instance).

Thanks!

Josh
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