Peter,
Just curious : why do you delete & create fields ? Instead, why don't you work with a maximum set of fields (the maximum number of flds you'll ever need simulateously) and just replace the content of those fields on the fly ? JB > I am creating an app that creates and deletes a lot of fields. It is > basically a educational title with cloze activities (i.e., fill-in, > like "The d_ _ likes to ch_ _ _ the ball.") > > I read the content from an external text file and then copy an existing > field to get the different parts. In the example above I create 10 fields > containing "The " "d" "_" "_" " likes to " "ch" "_" "_" "_" " the ball." > > I use separate fields so I can more easily control the placement of the > text so as to not have text moving as I replace the underscores with > letters (e.g. "_" is a lot wider than an "i", so if I have "dig" as "d__ a > hole," and I replace the first _ with i, the text after the I will move to > the left.) > > My concern is that with creating and deleting so many fields, I might run > out of IDs. Are the IDs ever reused? > > This probably isn't a problem with the runtime, since the stack isn't > saved, so the next time the program is run, it will start with the same IDs > each time. My main concern is in testing the program in the IDE and > ratcheting up the ID numbers. Is this a valid concern? Is there anyway to > "reset" the ID numbers? _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
