From: stephen...@gmail.com   
      
   On Friday, June 2, 2023 at 12:16:00 PM UTC-5, Tom Thumb wrote:   
      
   > May I ask though; why go about it this way: if ((myEvent.wmTaskData4 &   
   0xFFFF8000) == 0) rather than: if(myEvent.wmTaskData4 <= 32767) ?    
   >    
   > is there a reason? or just a choice?   
      
   That is probably also because of the translation from Pascal. Pascal doesn't   
   really have unsigned integer types, so a value with the high bit set would be   
   treated as a negative number. The bit-masking check excludes such numbers.   
      
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   Stephen Heumann   
      
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