Re: Resource Manager - please help!

[uerics@mcl.ucsb.edu (Eric D. Shepherd)]

In <1993May18.105435.21427@ifi.unizh.ch> gudat@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (gudat henrik) writes:

>The other question that arises is: why do some programs start up tools
>with a modified auxID? What's the reason for this?

Simple -- sometimes it's useful for debugging.  Especially if you use
a program like Memory Detective for scoping out memory use.  You can
search by user ID and/or user ID and auxID.  For example, if your
application has main ID $02 (ID $1x02), you can set up filters in Memory
Detective to allow you to search by auxID so that you can find all the
memory being used by, say, your string handles (auxID $2).  It's great for
finding memory that your application has allocated, knowing what module of
your program is doing what, and other exciting stuff like that. :)

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