Highest Record # Possible To Use?

[Necrosaro420]

Say if I want to make a new map and start at room 50,000...could I do that? Or is there a limit of a certain number I can only go up to? And does that also go for items, textblocks, spells, whatever? Thanks!

[syntax53]

i just type this whole thing out and the board lagged when i hit post and i dont feel like typing it again. i'll do it tomorrow, uhg.

[Necrosaro420]

i just type this whole thing out and the board lagged when i hit post and i dont feel like typing it again. i'll do it tomorrow, uhg.



Doh, was gonna start working on it in 6 hours! =( lol hehe kk ill wait for ya to answer

[syntax53]

damnit alright ...



theoreticly since most of majormud record number fields are 4-byte unsigned integers you could have a record number as high as 4.2 billion. however since metro likes to screw things up a few fields here and there i've noticed only allow for a 2-byte number to be entered, making the max value for that 65535. to be absolutley safe, 32767 should be the highest number because if a field is setup as a 2-byte signed integer it wont take anything higher than that. you could most likely use anything 2.1 billions because of VB's data type limitations.

[Necrosaro420]

ahh kew kew, thanks bro =)

[Necrosaro420]

Gotta go through and renumber all of my edits now =( lol...

[Locke Cole]

Just a comment-- Btrieve AUTOINC fields are signed, so a 2-byte field would be 1 - 32,767 and a 4-byte field would be 1 - 2,147,483,647.



Btrieve ignores the sign bit, so applications that use Btrieve can use the sign bit as a "flag". Trying a GET operation on -6 gets record 6 (or -6 if the sign bit is set-- the point is though, only 6 or -6 can exist, there can't be a 6 and -6 in an AUTOINC field).

[Necrosaro420]

Just a comment-- Btrieve AUTOINC fields are signed, so a 2-byte field would be 1 - 32,767 and a 4-byte field would be 1 - 2,147,483,647.



Btrieve ignores the sign bit, so applications that use Btrieve can use the sign bit as a "flag". Trying a GET operation on -6 gets record 6 (or -6 if the sign bit is set-- the point is though, only 6 or -6 can exist, there can't be a 6 and -6 in an AUTOINC field).





Ya lost me.... :rolleyes:

[Sven]

err basically "signed" usually modifies a variable, but in btrieve it doesn't, it ignores the signed 'flag' so the programmer can used the signed flag to mark variables.



heh, my translation

[Necrosaro420]

Ok....put this in retard terms for me =) If you all happen to know...Which Fields can go above 32k and which ones not? Talking about





Items



Rooms



Spells



Monsters



Shops



Ect ect. Thanks