I'll right, guirandom it is. Will include it in the next SVN update. The generators likely won't couple. In fact I suspect the vast majority of people won't even know about the existence of the second one unless they've read the manual. :-) Sean On Aug 22, 2011, at 12:31 PM, glen e. p. ropella wrote: > My only worry is that the two generators may couple and make the > period > shorter. As long as they remain separate (no model code uses the > guirandom and no gui code uses the model random), it seems OK. > > Sean Luke wrote circa 11-08-20 02:31 PM: >> 1. The random number generator is presently called "guirandom". I >> could >> call it "random", which would be consistent with state.random, but >> I'm >> worried it'd confuse people. Should I not be worried? Or can anyone >> think of a better name? These variable names last forever. > > I think it's useful to use a different name and "guirandom" is nice. > >> 2. The generator is created at GUIState construction time and is >> never >> recreated thereafter (unless you want to do so yourself). I think >> that's the proper strategy. > > FWIW, I like that. The guirandom lives as long as the gui lives. > > -- > glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com