At 12:00am -0700 01-09-20, Palm Developer Forum digest wrote:
>Just reading the manual that came with CW7 and on page PAL-119
>I've found the interesting statement that an application must not have
>resource ID's above 10000 - they're for system use.
>
>This is fair enough but I'd like to know why this requirement isn't
>enforced (or even *mentioned*) by constructor.
Good idea - I'll pass it on.
>I'm building a
>complex suite of apps with a lot of resources and a lot of resource
>sharing so I'd been using resource ID's above 10000 just as a
>side-effect of using 1000's to divide groups of IDs for management
>purposes.
>
>I can renumber everything but it's a pity to have to do this rework
>because the development environment is lacking a simple warning.
>
>Or is there more to this than the manual suggests?
There's been a number of posts re this topic in the past. If you use
IDs >= 10000, you run the risk of having your resource 'mask' a
system resource (if they have the same type/id), and then Bad Things
happen.
-- Ken
Ken Krugler
TransPac Software, Inc.
<http://www.transpac.com>
+1 530-470-9200
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