On 01/26/2016 08:22 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

Your find prompted me to do a search in the bug DB for all reports that
include "sc...@runrev.com" among the commenters and found some other
gems from the olden days, like this useful tidbit I never knew before
(is this documented?):

    ...you can use numbers of the form "0xFFFFFFFF" directly
    in scripts, saving you the rigamarole of using numToChar
    to build them up...
<http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=295#c5>

Hex notation has, as far as I know, always been supported.
I don't see anything in the api dictionary about it, and <rant> the guides aren't searchable </rant>, so I can't say whether the numeric format is documented.

--
 Mark Wieder
 ahsoftw...@gmail.com

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