[Bf-committers] Expanding the layers in Blender

[David Bryant]

As mentioned in a previous post,bit fields to flag as layer numbers are no 
good after you shift past 1<<31, so Blender's number of layers will never go 
past 31 (which I have achieved) expanding Blender's layer count to 31 layers 
using the present method in Blender's codebase.
I want to give Blender "at least"  256 scene layers.Lightwave,Maya and 
others have 999.I have to load a layer number identification table that will 
load "once" on Blender's startup in order to statically assign layer numbers 
instead of assigning that many layer numbers "on the fly"every time a 
function is called which is inefficient as regard code speed.

 My question is, is there a module in Blender that initializes "once" on 
startup so that I can ride that module or function to initialize a layer 
table? If this doesn't exist, the only other thing is a header file with a 
large number of definitions and large arrays that would repeatedly load on 
the fly.

If there are any other ideas as to how I can do this efficiently, please 
share.

Sorry about the previous message.forgot to change my email format.