Re: [AD] [ alleg-Bugs-2333410 ] think of a way to allocate user event type numbers.

[Evert Glebbeek <eglebbk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11 Dec 2008, at 15:49, Milan Mimica wrote:
> How about this:
> #define ALLEGRO_EVENT_ID(a,b,c,d,e,f)     ((((a)-0x41)<<25) \
>                                           | (((b)-0x41)<<20) \
>                                           | (((c)-0x41)<<15) \
>                                           | (((d)-0x41)<<10) \
>                                           | (((e)-0x41)<<5)  \
>                                           |  ((f)-0x41))
>
> It uniquely codes any of the upper case letters and [\]^_`. Leaves  
> 2 bits for
> something...

Leaves out numbers though (based on your description), which isn't  
particularly nice.
I do like the idea of leaving some extra free bits though... we could  
"reserve" those for our own use if we wanted to. May not be necessary  
though.

Evert