Electronic – Stm32 Event and interrupts

I started studying interrupts on stm32 specifically the stm32f4 discovery board. i found this example in which you have to press the button to start the interrupt and push it again to stop it.

In this line:EXTI_InitStructure.EXTI_Mode = EXTI_Mode_Interrupt we have to choose either the interrupt mode or the event mode. I changed it to event mode but it doesn t seem to work .So i came out with the conclusion that the handler is executed whith interrupts only.

Why do we then use Events on stm32 if you can't execute some code when they happens?

Here is the code:

        #include "stm32f4xx.h"
        #include "stm32f4xx_syscfg.h"
        #include "stm32f4xx_rcc.h"
        #include "stm32f4xx_gpio.h"
        #include "stm32f4xx_exti.h"
        #include "misc.h"



        EXTI_InitTypeDef   EXTI_InitStructure;

        void EXTILine0_Config(void);
        void LEDInit(void);


        void ExtInt(void)
        {

          LEDInit();

          /* Configure EXTI Line0 (connected to PA0 pin) in interrupt mode */
          EXTILine0_Config();

          /* Generate software interrupt: simulate a rising edge applied on EXTI0 line */
          EXTI_GenerateSWInterrupt(EXTI_Line0);

          while (1)
          {
          }
        }

        /**
          * @brief  Configures LED GPIO.
          * @param  None
          * @retval None
          */
        void LEDInit()
        {
          GPIO_InitTypeDef  GPIO_InitStructure;

          /* Enable the GPIO_LED Clock */
          RCC_AHB1PeriphClockCmd(RCC_AHB1Periph_GPIOD, ENABLE);

          /* Configure the GPIO_LED pin */
          GPIO_InitStructure.GPIO_Pin = GPIO_Pin_12;
          GPIO_InitStructure.GPIO_Mode = GPIO_Mode_OUT;
          GPIO_InitStructure.GPIO_OType = GPIO_OType_PP;
          GPIO_InitStructure.GPIO_PuPd = GPIO_PuPd_UP;
          GPIO_InitStructure.GPIO_Speed = GPIO_Speed_50MHz;
          GPIO_Init(GPIOD, &GPIO_InitStructure);
        }

        /**
          * @brief  Configures EXTI Line0 (connected to PA0 pin) in interrupt mode
          * @param  None
          * @retval None
          */
        void EXTILine0_Config(void)
        {

          GPIO_InitTypeDef   GPIO_InitStructure;
          NVIC_InitTypeDef   NVIC_InitStructure;

          /* Enable GPIOA clock */
          RCC_AHB1PeriphClockCmd(RCC_AHB1Periph_GPIOA, ENABLE);
          /* Enable SYSCFG clock */
          RCC_APB2PeriphClockCmd(RCC_APB2Periph_SYSCFG, ENABLE);

          /* Configure PA0 pin as input floating */
          GPIO_InitStructure.GPIO_Mode = GPIO_Mode_IN;
          GPIO_InitStructure.GPIO_PuPd = GPIO_PuPd_NOPULL;
          GPIO_InitStructure.GPIO_Pin = GPIO_Pin_0;
          GPIO_Init(GPIOA, &GPIO_InitStructure);

          /* Connect EXTI Line0 to PA0 pin */
          SYSCFG_EXTILineConfig(EXTI_PortSourceGPIOA, EXTI_PinSource0);

          /* Configure EXTI Line0 */
          EXTI_InitStructure.EXTI_Line = EXTI_Line0;
          EXTI_InitStructure.EXTI_Mode = EXTI_Mode_Interrupt;
          EXTI_InitStructure.EXTI_Trigger = EXTI_Trigger_Rising;
          EXTI_InitStructure.EXTI_LineCmd = ENABLE;
          EXTI_Init(&EXTI_InitStructure);

          /* Enable and set EXTI Line0 Interrupt to the lowest priority */
          NVIC_InitStructure.NVIC_IRQChannel = EXTI0_IRQn;
          NVIC_InitStructure.NVIC_IRQChannelPreemptionPriority = 0x01;
          NVIC_InitStructure.NVIC_IRQChannelSubPriority = 0x01;
          NVIC_InitStructure.NVIC_IRQChannelCmd = ENABLE;
          NVIC_Init(&NVIC_InitStructure);
        }

        /**
          * @brief  This function handles External line 0 interrupt request.
          * @param  None
          * @retval None
          */
        void EXTI0_IRQHandler(void)
        {
          if(EXTI_GetITStatus(EXTI_Line0) != RESET)
          {
            /* Toggle LED1 */
            GPIO_ToggleBits(GPIOD, GPIO_Pin_12);

            /* Clear the EXTI line 0 pending bit */
            EXTI_ClearITPendingBit(EXTI_Line0);
          }
        }

        /**
          * @}
          */

        /**
          * @}
          */

        /******************* (C) COPYRIGHT 2011 STMicroelectronics *****END OF FILE****/

        int main(void)
        {

            while(1)
            {
            }
        }