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A few words about how and why the tool-kit's UIDs are defined here.
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The motivation for centrally defining all the tool-kit's UIDs in one place
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was to allow them all to be changed into the non-protected range, thereby
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allowing the tool-kit to be installed using a self-signed SIS file. Note,
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self-signed SIS files can only be used with UIDs in the non-protected range.
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Each platform that the tool-kit supports gets to decide which range of UIDs
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it will use. The platforms (i.e. sub-directories of \fshell/platforms)
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decide which range to use by whether they define FSHELL_PROTECTED_UIDS in their
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platform.mmh. This macro is picked up by common.mmh (which is #included by
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all .mmp files) and any .cpp or .rss (or similar) files that need it.