That should work fine. Can you post the full code or at least some context showing the function and variable definitions? Use <<code>> and <</code>> to maintain the formatting so that it's readable.

Declarations used:

Timeout flag1; float T1;

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Re problem with timeout() on mBed LPC1768; code extracts:

Timeout flag1; float T1, RC;

RC = 50.0;

....

T1 = 0.1 * 2.0 * RC;

....

flag1.attach(&set1, T1);

with separately defined set1 function which sets an mBed Pin to logic H.

The above code produces no activity on teh pin. However if I change the last line to

flag1.attach(&set1, 10);

then the code works as desired. I just can't see where the problem is at the moment.

Thanks for any advice.

Gerry

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Re problem with timeout() on mBed LPC1768; code extracts:

Timeout flag1; float T1, RC;

RC = 50.0;

....

T1 = 0.1 * 2.0 * RC;

....

flag1.attach(&set1, T1);

with separately defined set1 function which sets an mBed Pin to logic H.

The above code produces no activity on teh pin. However if I change the last line to

flag1.attach(&set1, 10);

then the code works as desired. I just can't see where the problem is at the moment.

Thanks for any advice.

Gerry

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I have no idea why it's not working. As a sanity check can you add a a printf to output the vale of T1 when it does the attach?

BTW if you edit a comment after posting it you get a bigger edit box and a preview button, handy for getting the syntax highlighting to work. I gave up trying to work out the logic behind some of the design on this site a long time ago.

Andy I followed your advice and found that T1 was set to zero! Checking the code carefully I found that while I had declared T1 as a global variable at the start of the code, I also redeclared the variable, in error, in main() - so presumably the global value was not then the same as that in main(). The actual value of T1 was set in main().

It's all working properly now. Many thanks for your help, Andy - it's much appreciated.

Gerry