I'm just at the stage of updating my tools and docs and have been mulling over how, in OS5, we will accomplish some of the things we used to do using traps before.
In order to make something like a background data-logger or a keyboard driver, it was necessary to hook into the "event system" in order to have one's application do the equivalent of TSR (run in the background). Now I understand that there are notifications (a small subset of old traps), but I also wonder if the applications will still run in a single thread as in earlier OS's? If it is possible to run in a separate thread from the user's current app, then it would be possible to capture the serial data and deal with it and not have to use the notifications (this is what is done on WinCE in many cases). Are there any other pointers or options for those of use who want to collect and/or massage serial data in the background? Thanks, GB -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
