Fork of beep lib. Enables play of continous tones and changing of frequency on the fly

Fork of beep by Peter Drescher

beep.h

Committer:
dreschpe
Date:
2011-02-02
Revision:
3:5a8242af60ba
Parent:
1:ddccf0a4a414

File content as of revision 3:5a8242af60ba:

#ifndef MBED_BEEP_H
#define MBED_BEEP_H

#include "mbed.h"

/** class to make sound with a buzzer, based on a PwmOut
 *   The class use a timeout to switch off the sound  - it is not blocking while making noise
 *
 * Example:
 * @code
 * // Beep with 1Khz for 0.5 seconds
 * #include "mbed.h"
 * #include "beep.h"
 * 
 * Beep buzzer(p21);
 * 
 * int main() {
 *        ...
 *   buzzer.beep(1000,0.5);    
 *       ...
 * }
 * @endcode
 */


namespace mbed {

/* Class: Beep
 *  A class witch uses pwm to controle a beeper to generate sounds.
 */
class Beep {

public:

/** Create a Beep object connected to the specified PwmOut pin
 *
 * @param pin PwmOut pin to connect to 
 */
    Beep (PinName pin);

/** Beep with given frequency and duration.
 *
 * @param frequency - the frequency of the tone in Hz
 * @param time - the duration of the tone in seconds
 */
    void beep (float frequency, float time);

/** stop the beep instantaneous 
 * usually not used 
 */
    void nobeep();

private :
    PwmOut _pwm;
    Timeout toff;
};

}
#endif