>Hello all,
>
>I have a splash screen that is instantiated in my main prg file:
>
>SET CLASSLIB TO qdmsabout ADDITIVE
>phil = CREATEOBJ('qdms_splash')
>phil.SHOW(1)
>
>In the load of the splash screen, I open a table of quotations, set the order to quote number, and then generate a random number:
>
>l_nPickNumber=round(rand()*100,0)
>
>The table is then selected and the record number is found with a seek.
>
>In the init, I display the corresponding quote:
>
>thisform.edbThought.value=alltrim(thoughts.thought)
>
>All works well in the development environment, but when run as an exe, the PickNumber is ALWAYS 85! I can also use l_nPickNumber=8 (or any number) and it finds the corresponding record.
>
>Why is the RAND statement not working in the exe?
>
>Thanks!


Seed Rand() with a -1 before calling it. This will make it random all the time.
IF you closed your developement environment and called it, in that order each time you will note that it always is the same.

Try:
rand(-1)
l_nPickNumber=round(rand()*100,0)

Tracy