omit sending hat if direction is not changed

.vscode/arduino.json

@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-{
-    "board": "SparkFun:avr:promicro",
-    "programmer": "AVR ISP",
-    "port": "COM11",
-    "sketch": "connect_switch.ino",
-    "configuration": "cpu=16MHzatmega32U4"
-}

.vscode/c_cpp_properties.json

@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-{
-    "configurations": [
-        {
-            "name": "Win32",
-            "includePath": [
-                "C:\\Users\\sirrow\\AppData\\Local\\Arduino15\\packages\\SparkFun\\hardware\\avr\\1.1.13\\**",
-                "C:\\Users\\sirrow\\AppData\\Local\\Arduino15\\packages\\arduino\\tools\\**",
-                "C:\\Users\\sirrow\\AppData\\Local\\Arduino15\\packages\\arduino\\hardware\\avr\\1.8.2\\**"
-            ],
-            "forcedInclude": [],
-            "intelliSenseMode": "msvc-x64",
-            "compilerPath": "C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2019/Community/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.24.28314/bin/Hostx64/x64/cl.exe",
-            "cStandard": "c11",
-            "cppStandard": "c++17"
-        }
-    ],
-    "version": 4
-}

connect_switch.ino

@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ struct arrow newestArrow;
 #define ButtonInfoTableSize 9
 struct ButtonInfo buttonInfoTable[ButtonInfoTableSize];
 
+Hat last = Hat::CENTER;
 
 void perms() {
   if(val == 0){
@@ -103,7 +104,6 @@ void setup()
   oldestArrow.arrowSymbol = Hat::CENTER;
   newestArrow.older = &oldestArrow;
   newestArrow.newer = NULL;
-
 }
 
 void handleButtonInput(ButtonInfo *but){
@@ -158,8 +158,10 @@ void loop()
     arrowTable[i].prev = arrowTable[i].current;
   }
 
-
-  SwitchControlLibrary().MoveHat(static_cast<uint8_t>(newestArrow.older->arrowSymbol));
+  if(newestArrow.older->arrowSymbol != last){
+    last = newestArrow.older->arrowSymbol;
+    SwitchControlLibrary().MoveHat(static_cast<uint8_t>(newestArrow.older->arrowSymbol));
+  }
 
 
 }