According to Matti Picus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Generating a unique int ID seems to be faulty in many places in AbiWord. 
> The general method is to use the result from UT_rand() and hope that it is 
> unique.  I recently modified the RTF importer with a different method: 
> using a static member variable.
> 
> I hope the construct is portable to all platforms.

I agree on the idea. I already have a "to be committed" change for header
footer that use a similar idea (currently I use UT_rand(), but this is BAD).


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