Great idea using ID's , thanks to all involved. Camm29 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Gaskin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "How to use Revolution" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2005 3:51 PM Subject: Re: Binary String to Enable Objects
> Rob Cozens wrote: > > Hi Alex, > > > >> That's neat ! I would never have thought of using the IDs - I've > >> never set an ID to a specific value > > > > > > You can only set image ids: the ids of other controls cannot be changed. > > But you can use the altID property for the same effect. > > Object IDs and altIDs are checked in object layer order, like this: > > 1. Object #1 true ID > 2. Object #2 altID > 3. Object #3 true ID > 4. Object #4 altID > ... > > This does require some care to work with, as it's possible to set the > altID of one object to the ID of another, so anything attempting to > reference the second object by ID will actually find the first object. > > The range of numbers for altIDs goes up to 65535, and if you start with > a number well above the number of objects in your stack plus a few > thousand you should never have a conflict. > > Built-in IDs start at 1001 and all objects are apparently incremented > from the same counter, so a new card will be 1002, a button added there > will be 1003, etc. > > So if you know the sum of all objects will be fewer than 9000 (that > would be a hefty project), you could safely start your altIDs at 10000. > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Managing Editor, revJournal > _______________________________________________________ > Rev tips, tutorials and more: http://www.revJournal.com > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
