/*

* Copyright (c) 2002-2006 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).

* All rights reserved.

* This component and the accompanying materials are made available

* under the terms of the License "Eclipse Public License v1.0"

* which accompanies this distribution, and is available

* at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html".

*

* Initial Contributors:

* Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.

*

* Contributors:

*

* Description:  Factory class for timers implementing abs_core_timer_c interface

*

*/

#ifndef CORE_TIMER_FACTORY_H

#define CORE_TIMER_FACTORY_H

#include "am_platform_libraries.h"

class abs_core_timer_c;

class abs_core_timer_callback_c;

class core_callback_c;

/**

* This class implements a timer factory that is used to instantiate

* timers implementing abs_core_timer_c interface.

* @see abs_core_timer_c

*/

NONSHARABLE_CLASS(core_timer_factory_c)

    {

    public:

        /**

        * Create a new timer.       

        * @param callback Handle to callback interface

        * @return Pointer to the created timer.

        */

        static abs_core_timer_c* create_timer(

            core_callback_c* callback );

        /**

        * Destroy an old timer.

        * @param timer Timer to be destroyed.

        */

        static void destroy_timer(

            abs_core_timer_c* timer );

    private: // private constructor

        core_timer_factory_c();

    };

#endif // CORE_TIMER_FACTORY_H