AltIDs

[Mike Bonner]

The max you can set the altid to is 65535. Soon as you hit 65536 it wraps
around to 0 again.

On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 12:20 PM, David Epstein <dfepstein at comcast.net>wrote:

> To avoid conflicts with normal ids, it seems we want to choose large
> numbers for altIDs.  Testing this out:
>
> Create a new stack.
> Create one button.
> In the message box, "set the altID of btn 1 to 888888888"
> In the message box, "put the altID of btn 1"
> Result:
> 24120
> Tried this again, using 999999999.  Result was 51711
> What's going on?
>
> Many thanks.
> David Epstein
>
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