> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron Scott-Boddendijk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 09 April 1999 03:34
> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> Subject: Re: [DUG]: Interface Usage
>
>
> >> (B) how do you generate a unique GUID
> >In Delphi IDE, CTRL-SHIFT-G.
>
>
> Do these number shave to be unique across machines. IE if I
> use the application
> on another machine with the GUID already used will things get messy...
>
A GUID is statistically 'Globally Unique' so you should never come across an
instance of the same number being used by another object. I wonder if a GUID
may be slightly less unique than a UUID (Universally Unique) which is also
sometimes referred to!
Cheers
Tom
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Tom Munro Glass
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