an asynchronous ticker which calls methods in a regular fashion, but not from an interrupt handler. This allows the called methods to do complex and more time-consuming stuff (e.g. network requests, calculation, or printing to the serial console)

Dependents:   IOT_Sockets

Revision:
0:13db8277ce26
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+/*
+ * mbed ASyncTicker library
+* Copyright (c) 2010 Hendrik Lipka
+* 
+* Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+* of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
+* in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
+* to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
+* copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+* furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+* 
+* The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
+* all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+* 
+* THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+* IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+* FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+* AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+* LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
+* OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
+* THE SOFTWARE.
+*/
+
+#ifndef __UPDATEABLE_H__
+#define __UPDATEABLE_H__
+
+/**
+    callback interface for classes which are subject to be called from the ASync ticker
+*/
+class Updateable
+{
+    public:
+        /**
+            virtual method which is called by the ticker
+        */
+        virtual void update()=0;
+};
+
+
+#endif