CCP (capture) issue with 16f1827

[irmanao]

I mean a short burst (two full cycles) of the squarewave. I use a push button connected to a different PIC to send it whenever i press it. If i disconnect the wire that feeds that burst, the LED does go low again... but it doesn't after the burst is over.
thanks

[PCM programmer]

The basic problem is, you've had a CCP interrupt, then there's no more
signal, so you don't get anymore interrupts. Therefore, 'isr_ccp_delta'
retains the last value that it was set to. The calculated frequency
doesn't change, and the LED stays on.

There are a couple ways to handle this.

1st method:
You could, after copying isr_ccp_delta into current_ccp_delta, just set
isr_ccp_delta to 1000000L or something. That number, when used in
the frequency calculation, will give you a freq of 1. Your LED will go off.
I haven't tested this, but it sounds like it would work.

2nd method:
This post explains how to do it:
http://www.ccsinfo.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=29963&start=9
The post below gives a code example that implements that method.
You can see that a global 'gc_capture_flag' variable was added to the
program. Then it's set inside the isr to indicate a CCP interrupt occurred.
http://www.ccsinfo.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=33153&&start=67

If the first method works, then go with it.

[irmanao]

Yep, the first method worked. Thanks a lot for the original code also.