One easy way is to use a database that supports an autoincrement
field.
Another one is to have a third proggy that communicates via messages
and acts as a number dispenser.
On 1 Jun 99 at 11:33, Jason Webb wrote:
> I hope someone has some ideas as I'm stuck.
>
> I have a situation where two delhi programs need to obtain an incrimenting
> unique ID number from the single source.
>
>
> So an example.
>
> Delphi progrm 1 processes and gets unique ID 1000
> Delphi program 2 processes and gets inque ID 1001
> Delphi progrm 1 processes and gets unique ID 1002
> Delphi program 2 processes and gets inque ID 1003
> Delphi progrm 2 processes and gets unique ID 1004
> Delphi program 2 processes and gets inque ID 1005
> and so on....
>
> So it's reasonably easy to use a single ini file or share a registry entry
> but what hapens when both programs want to get a unique ID at the same time.
>
> In future I'll have more delhi programs that need to get the uniqie ID form
> the same source.
>
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Jason Webb
>
>
>
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