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Re: Don: Radio Button slight correction

• Posted by Evan Marshall <1evan at sbcglobal.net> Nov 22, 2005
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don cole wrote:
> 
> Hello Al ,
> I really haven't really read you Radio button post yet (I will) because 
> CheckBox is good enough for my purposes right now.
> 
> However I do have another question.
> I read somewhere that it best to use integers rather than atoms when decimal
> points are not needed because integer program execution runs faster.
> I noticed in your winClass that you declare every control as an atom.
> Why?
> \
> Don Cole
>  A Bug is an un-documented feature.
> A Feature is a documented Bug.

atoms are not just for floating point numbers.

Max integer value: 2,147,483,647

Max atom value: 4,294,967,295

Many times a control ID is larger than 2,147,483,647.