Trigger Modes

Every binding pairs which button with how it fires. Control Flex offers ten trigger modes, so one button can tap, hold, latch, and double-press for different actions.

The Ten Modes

Mode	When it fires	Typical use
Press	Once, on button down	One-shots and menu opens
Release	Once, on button up	Layer return, “on let go” actions
Hold	Active the whole time held	Movement, look, sustained use, layer switches
Tap	Once, on release after a short press; if held past the threshold, nothing fires on release	Quick actions that must not fire on a hold
Long Press	Once, after being held past the long-press threshold	A second function on the same button (e.g. pause menu)
Toggle	First press activates and holds, second press releases; independent of button hold (RELEASE events are ignored)	Persistent states: sprint, walk mode, POV
Double Press	A second press inside the tap window fires once immediately on down (not latched)	An extra one-shot alongside Hold / Press
Double Tap	Two short presses; fires once on the second release	Confirm-style actions that must not steal the first tap
Double Hold	Short press, then press-and-hold inside the tap window; stays active until release	Tap-then-hold for deliberate triggers that resist misfires
Double Toggle	Same latch as Toggle; flips on the second short-press release	A latch sharing one button with its Hold variant (Basic does this for sneak)

Thresholds & Time Windows

Tap and Long Press thresholds are global, 100–2000 ms, configured in Other Settings. They apply to every binding and template.
The Tap threshold doubles as the gap limit for every Double mode: Double Press / Tap / Hold / Toggle all use it as the maximum interval between the two presses.
Defaults: Tap 500 ms, Long Press 1000 ms (from the Basic template).

Changing a Mode

In Key Mapping, the Mode column cycles through the common modes (Press / Hold / Tap / Long Press).
Templates and compat JSON support all ten, written as button|MODE — for example buttonA|HOLD or rightStickClick|DOUBLE_TOGGLE. Mode tokens: PRESS / RELEASE / HOLD / TAP / LONG_PRESS / TOGGLE / DOUBLE_PRESS / DOUBLE_TAP / DOUBLE_HOLD / DOUBLE_TOGGLE.
Some actions restrict their mode: layer switches are fixed to HOLD, Shift-layer return-to-Main to RELEASE, and radial-menu opens support PRESS and HOLD.

Worked Examples

Button	Binding	Effect
R-stick click	`HOLD` + `DOUBLE_TOGGLE`	Hold to sneak, double-tap to latch sneak (Basic default)
Start	`LONG_PRESS`	Long press opens the pause menu; short presses do nothing
D-Pad →	`TAP`	Tap to change perspective; an accidental hold does nothing

To combine buttons into one action, see Combo Keys; to bake toggles into a template, see Configuration.