Hi all,
I recently changed all occurrences of rand() and friends to use
g_rand* from the glib 2.0 interface. And in doing so, some of the
flaws of the gimp random seed widget annoyed me. I have some
suggestions for changing it, which I thopught I'd run past the
list before I commit the changes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (2002-11-21 at 1459.36 +0100):
The gimp_random_seed_new() function currently creates a
spinbutton for the seed, and a togglebutton for whether a Time
seed should be used. With the change over to g_rand* () the
default seeding (which is from /dev/urandom by default, and time
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, David Neary wrote:
The real change would be to do away with the toggle, replace the
toggle button with a normal button, and set a random seed in the
spin-box when the button is pressed. For this, I've been using
the global PRNG (g_random_int) rather than setting up what
