Re: FLASH: Clarification: Sound looping question

[Laurent F. Somers]

At 10:17 12.5.1999 -0700, you wrote:

>>Hi Brad,

>>

>>I was just wondering how you arrived at that number "2,147,483,647"?

>

>I entered 999999999999999 and pressed ENTER.  Then I reopened the Frame

Properties dialog.

>

>Don't ask why that particular number of loops is the maximum.  It's an

Official Secret :)


Elementary, Brad,  2147483648 is the greatest value a 32-bit (4-byte)

signed number can contain. Strictly speaking, they could have used an

unsigned number resulting in a maximum of 4294967296. But I guess

2147483648 should suffice... and yes, I'm a programmer too.


Regards,


Laurent

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