We have a potential customer who wants to program one line item for all of the parts they may produce in one day. They expect to produce about 17000 but we have traditionally limited the maximum Qty to 9999.

We would prefer to add one extra digit and allow values up to 99,999. However that would require changing the size of the variables used to store and manipulate Qty, Done and other internally used variables. This would be very risky due to the likelyhood of missing the size change on temporary variables or one of the arguments or return values for functions and methods used to manipulate and use these fields.

We can very safely allow the maximum Qty to go up to 32767 which is the maximum value that can be stored in the 16bit signed integers that are used today.

The UART version is being bumped to 3.44 to allow Eclipse to know if it can use the larger upper limit.

Changes were made to Increase Qty, Remake and Decrement Qty to handle the larger upper limit on Qty.