Button press/release events?

[nguyer]

Hi there! How hard would it be to add button events for when a button is pressed or released?

Example use case: I am creating an app that controls a dimming light, and I want to be able to press and hold the up button to continuously increase the brightness while I hold the button down.

Right now I don't see any way to do this. If there is a way though, I would love to hear ideas.

Thanks!

[elvquant]

I'm interest in this feature, too!

[trautonen]

Due to bluetooth roundtrip I would guess this feature would be really really unreliable.

[olee]

I also believe this is highly necessary!
It was requested long ago already (https://forums.pebble.com/t/detect-button-hold/12402) and even if it is slightly inacurate, it wouldn't matter.

I for example want to create a time-picker like the one in the pebble timer app.
However right now there is no other way to quickly change a time value other than spamming the buttons.

Here are the docs for repeated clicks.