Calling Randomize too often can make your Random numbers even less random.
Sometimes having the Randomize call in a unit initialization section is not practical.
Hence this little method that I think I first wrote back in the Turbo Pascal days:
procedure RandomizeIfNeeded(); begin if RandSeed = 0 then Randomize(); end;
–jeroen
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