>>>>I cannot see any harm in adding one method to your existing class
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>>>It was causing too many other changes elsewhere. As I mentioned, it would have required another Initialize() method just to support that and additional properties.
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>>No, the initialize() method and the properties all stay the same
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>>The new method calls the existing method and converts the result to UInteger
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>I'm going to leave you two to it - I've got 2-3 weeks vacation starting tomorrow :-}
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>FWIW, I agree with you, Michel could leave is current class code intact and simply add a method to return the result as UInt32 when that is required.....


Yes, by the looks of it, the value is stored in a property of the class. Another property can be easily added. Then the method could update the two properties and the caller picks either of the two properties


Have a nice vacation, Viv