How to start all channels in a timer simultaneously under STM32Cube HAL

[Hz Lin]

This should be a simple use case but to my surprise it does not seems obvious how to do it. Say I have 3 PWM channels in the same timer, how do I turn them on simultaneously?

If I do 

  if (HAL_TIM_PWM_Start(&htim3, TIM_CHANNEL_1) != HAL_OK) Error_Handler();

  if (HAL_TIM_PWM_Start(&htim3, TIM_CHANNEL_2) != HAL_OK) Error_Handler();

There could be delay between the two steps. Is there a model where I can

1) Enable PWM CH1, 2) Enable PWM CH2, 3) start timer

 

What is the proper way to achieve this?

 

[MasterT]

Configure timer in Slave mode: Trigger mode
The counter can start in response to an event on a selected input.
In the following example, the upcounter starts in response to a rising edge on TI2 input:

Details in Reference Manual for uCPU

[waclawek.jan]

Slave mode is not necessary, you can start the counter (and thus all PWMs simultaneously) simply by setting TIM_CR1.CEN in software, as the last thing, after everything else has been set up. But I don't know how to do it in Cube, I don't use Cube.

JW