On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Jacqueline Landman Gay wrote:
> Scott Raney wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Gregory Lypny wrote:
> > >
> > > I've got a couple of questions about card ID numbers. First, do
> > > they start at 1000? If not, what is the lowest number?
> >
> > 1002
>
> Okay, I just gotta ask. One thousand two? Why two?
>
> Honest, I tried to ignore this question, but that little spot that hides
> behind the back of my brain wouldn't let me.
Historical accident, I think. We reserved the first 1000 valid ids (1
to 1000) for the standard icons, cursors, patterns, and brushes. So
stacks used to start at 1001 when dishing out ids and incremented this
value *after* creating an object. Then we changed the behavior of
stacks so that their id property was the id of the most recently
created object (to simplify the SC converter, as I recall), which
pushed everything up by one.
Regards,
Scott
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