I recall in a thread a while back someone was trying to set the stack ID and was having trouble. I think the engine reverts it.
Bob On Jan 13, 2011, at 9:12 AM, David Bovill wrote: > Richard - what happens in your test if you reset the ids of objects - can > you reset the stack ID and hence that of all newly created objects by some > combination of setting all the obects say back to their fressh id status? > > That is is the stack id not automatically created as the incremental > increase of the biggest real id - and not stored as a prop? If so it should > work to reset the ids back to 1002++ with or without resetting the stack id? > > On 13 January 2011 16:21, Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> wrote: > >> The good news is that the workaround is relatively simple: if you see a >> stack moving its IDs toward the limit, you can make a new stack and copy the >> objects from the old one to the new one, effectively resetting their IDs to >> start at 1002 again. >> >> It might be nice to have the ID limit raised, or to find some method to >> roll over and reuse unused IDs, but I recognize these options would be >> costly to implement and indeed it's a rare case where one would need to be >> concerned about it anyway. >> >> But that said, I have one project which uses two data grids and a custom >> control comprised of a few hundred objects which is rebuilt dynamically with >> certain user actions. In that project the IDs are currently over 2 million. >> The good news is that the stack is never saved when running in the >> standalone (the data is stored separately from the UI), so the IDs only >> increment in development. Still, I can expect that during the life cycle of >> the project we will need to do the copy-and-paste to reset the IDs. >> > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
