Sounds like you want a virtual serial driver. Check out the CryptoDrvr
sample from Palm. Search for "serial and sample"
Rgds,
Gavin.
>From: Metalle Gary-GMETALL1 (view other messages by this author)
>Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 05:06:44
>
>
>Hello
>
>Perhaps I should have worded my question better. I don't actually want a
>background task in that sense but rather an application that is always
>running in the background. I want to be able to write a device driver that
>reads the serial port (done all that stuff), processes it and enqueues
>events into the system queue. I can't have the application always running in
>the foreground as I want the user to be able to run up other applications
>such as memopad or whatever (then this user chosen application will pick up
>the system events that I posted from my background application).
>
>How do commercial keyboard drivers etc do this?
>
>Regards.
>
>Gary
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