JOACHIM PILEBORG wrote: > > You can always use C-structure bitfields. If I was writing Circle from > > scratch today, I'd ditch the entire IS_SET() macros and use bitfields instead. > > You can have as many bits as you want and you don't need to use macros to > > access them. i.e.: > (text snipped) > > Jeremy > Maybe something for Circle 4.0 then... :) yeah my first guess was they were using double longs, but soon realized that was impossible. i'm familiar with structure bitfields, i think the concept guru/pythe/fred was talkin about was the char array stuff... shrug, then again, they're pretty dead as far as coding goes nowadays anyway, heh ;) i'm not sure using char arrays fer the storage is such a great idea for a base-code. it seems a little too heavy for most new imps. -dert
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