This is not really true though for serial data as the question was referring to. The serial manager gives you the ability to speify a callback that will be called whenever n(you specify n) bytes are received on the serial port. While not as good as a separate thread, this alleviates some of the problems for that simple case.
This wouldn't help you for a background data logger, but since he mentioned the ability to spawn a thread, I assume he'd have the ability in his app to use this as well, and best of all, it's been available for a long time now :) > > Are there any other pointers or options for those of use who > > want to collect and/or massage serial data in the background? > > no.. all you have is the notification manager. register for > events, and, it will send them to you. no hacks, TSR's, multi > threading.. nada.. :) -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
