http://www.bricogeek.com/contest/let-arduino-play/

Sounds good to me. I’m going to modify the library to add the header as I said I would in the earlier comment. Once you modify your library, to add the restart feature, I will take off the library from this page and instead link to your blog. Sounds good?

I just ran across your post, and it’s nice to see someone using what was originally my rotary encoder library! I hope it’s serving you well.

However, I also just discovered SunboX’s Arduino forum post plagiarizing my library, and I’m very disappointed by that.

First, he or she plagiarized my code that I had posted six months earlier, removing the attribution mandated by the Creative Commons attribution / share-alike license and claiming the code as his or her “‘own’ little library,” with no credit given to me.

Second, he or she stripped the code and removed functionality — support for multiple concurrent encoders, among other things.

So on a technical note –

If I understand correctly, your encoder.restart(bool) method is designed to make the encoder wrap around from end to end when you’re using min and max values — rotate higher than max and it wraps around to min, and vice-versa.

I hadn’t thought to use this functionality, and I like the idea a lot. I’ll add it to the library, and I thank you for thinking of it. Because you already have a working program, I understand that you may not care if I publish a new version; but I wanted you to know that it would be out there and that I’ll credit you for the suggestion.

And on a copyright note –

My original code is published under a Creative Commons attribution / share-alike license. Even though it’s not your fault that SunboX violated my copyright by plagiarizing my code, the cc-by-sa license means that because your code is based on mine, you need to attribute me in the way I specify, *and* post your code under the same license, if you want to distribute your code.

So I need to ask you that if you want to continue making your version of the RotaryEncoder library available for download, you have to add my attribution and license terms back into the comments at the top of each file. The specific method to do that is mentioned at the link Barcud pasted above.

Alternatively, the wrap functionality that you contributed (*) will soon be added to my library, and you’re very welcome to use my updated version rather than the one based on SunboX’s work, if you prefer.