There are two reasons that these APIs are not documented:

1) The original 68K version of Palm OS used a kernel where the
licensing forbid Palm from exposing those APIs to users -- they could
use the main UI thread, but running in other threads required a Kadak
license for the app program.

2) The number of threads, timers, semaphors, etc. in the system is
determined at system build time.  Using one or more of these for your
program could prevent a system service from using the resource when it
needs it to perform a task.

On 2/22/06, David Birdsall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> ... At the risk of being flamed ...
>
> Just a small question; has anyone used any of the Kernel functions 
> (specifically the timer functions such as SysTimer..., SysSemaphore... and 
> SysTask...) and have they had any problems with them?
>
> Does anyone know if these functions are supported across all versions of Palm 
> OS, (say if I wanted to implement a Timer class or just wanted to root around 
> to see what they did?)
>
> Is this a good idea, or am I on a road to nowhere?
>
> Many thanks,
> Dave
>
>
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