Good suggestion. People have attempted to use real AMX tasks in pre-OS5, which is neither supported nor recommended. I would like to point out right up front that my work does not involve any additional OS 'tasks' of any kind.
And yes, it is possible to do background-like stuff with notifications. However, my work is less about background operation and more about application threads that happen to work in the background. I have been called upon to do a lot of communication related stuff, often porting from other operating systems. It is common to have at least a send, receive and service thread, asynchronous I/O and some kind of background presence. Early on (I've been at this since 1996) I got really tired of having to re-engineer everything to the, dare I say, 'frightfully primitive' Palm model, so I created threads, added async I/O, and facilitated background operation. This work has served me well and I'm offering it to the community (in a form yet to be determined). Thanks, jeff Jeffry Loucks a écrit, le 25/08/2005 03:48 : > I have received several requests for the background and thread stuff, so > I am assembling some documentation and a preliminary install. Please > allow me a few more days to make sense of it. If I can make a suggestion, it would be a good idea to start your documentation by explaining that there are usually better - and more supported - ways to do things than creating a background task. You can do a lot of stuff with notifications... -- For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
