hey everyone, im a new programmer, just practically started weeks ago... and i need an experts help. me and my group have managed to get the dc motors to work for the joystick settings, and we now have the arm on, but idk what the code is for the servos if i could get some help on this, it would be much appreciated.

if you give more specifics about how your robot is configured and connected, I'm sure we can help get something together.

well, we were running it off the basic FTC-Joystick sample program, and added a button to it, and for the button i had these settings

if(joy1Btn(1) != 0)
{
servoTarget[servo1] = 240;
}
else
{
servoTarget[servo1] = 50;
}

no matter what, it wouldnt work, and we plugged everything up according to the diagram in the book. after countless tries i gave up, and went here to post that, and then evenutally i downloaded the newest version of robotc (1.46) and then opened up one of the dual joystick sample programs, and changed the code for the button which was:

if(joy1Btn(1))
{
motor[motorA] = 50;
}
else
{
motor[motorA] = 0;
}

to

if(joy1Btn(1))
{
servoTarget[servo1] = 240;
}
else
{
servoTarget[servo1] = 50;
}

and it worked. now the only thing Q i have is, why is it working now?

That is quite strange; are you sure you had the servos set up properly in the Motors and Sensors Setup dialog?
This may, may have something to do with the following line,

Which in the sample is simply,

Play around with it a bit and see.
There should be no real problem in doing it as in the former, though I would not necessarily do it that way, but I don't know, this whole system is hinky.

I'm glad that its working now for you and yes its frustrating when things work and you don't know why.

I've heard that previous versions of RobotC didn't support the Hitechnic servos correctly (if at all), so depending on how old a version you had maybe that is the problem.