Re: Safe ID Range for my COMMAND_RANGE message map entry

From:

"Scott McPhillips [MVP]" <org-dot-mvps-at-scottmcp>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Sun, 06 May 2007 11:14:05 -0400

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Edward Mitchell wrote:

I am using COMMAND_RANGE to create fairly long list of items for one of my
menus. If I create an id such as ID_ITEM1, the system seems to pick a
number in the 32000 on up range. I could spell out all the commands
ID_ITEM1, ID_ITEM2, ID_ITEM3, etc. but what I'd like to do is to define
ID_FIRST and ID_LAST. I'm worried if I define first as 33000 and last as
33050, then sometime later, the automatic assignment will come along and
fill in the hole.

I notice the MRU list is spelled out for every entry (ID_FILE_MRU_FILE1, 2,
3, ... 16 with the actual numbers going from 57616 to 57631.

My question is if there is a range of numbers in the 16 bit ID set which is
completely under my control. Someplace where I am guaranteed that one of
the wizards won't allocate numbers between my beginning and end?

There is no range that is explicitly reserved. However, the numbers
that the wizard uses are controlled by the counters in last few lines in
the project's resource.h file, so you can see where it's going and add
your own #defines in that file for your own ID ranges.

--
Scott McPhillips [MVP VC++]