How to Reset ID's of Controls

[Richard Gaskin]

dunbarx wrote:
 > I was comforted back in the day with engine assigned ID's that were
 > not user settable. It was nice to know that these were unique and
 > somewhat apart from all other properties.
 >
 >
 > What was the rationale for making them changeable?

It wouldn't be possible to make a text-based version control system 
without it, since such a system needs to reconstruct objects with 
complete fidelity.

There's a warning in the Dictionary to avoid using them unless you have 
good reason to.  As long as we don't go out of our way to modify them 
this won't affect us at all.

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