i am considering others' needs as Im preparing these API functions in order to submit a new module which will use them. The new module will be for everyone to freely use-- and if there becomes a need to use any more API functions, i expect the developer that requires them, will have to do exactly as I did, and create those API functions. But there is also a good chance that the API function we are talking about will *never* be required so IMO it becomes bloat