Since Director originally was a 16-bit app, and 32-bit wasn't introduced
until Director 5, most likely the file format and everything for those was
still 16-bit; there being no practical reason (other than perhaps speed) to
move to 32-bit ints. Also, the speed diff between 16 and 32 would be
negligible, but moving to 32 would have an impact on file size, so I'm
guessing that's why they kept it at 16-bits.
At 12:51 PM 6/18/02 -0400, Colin Holgate wrote:
>>What do you think about this limitation of loch: Impossible to obtain a
>>value inferior to -32768. It changes itself to a positive value.
>
>
>It seems that the loch of something is a 16 bit number (is that a short
>integer, or a medium integer?). Wrapping around to a negative number if
>you go to positive, and vice versa, is normal behavior for integers. I
>guess you'll be limited to a CRT or LCD screen that is about 38 feet
>across for now.
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