>The was some program source that I thought
>Mars or Robert Purves wrote that did a scatter
>dissolve.  The algorithm in particular was actually
>pseudo-random where all the points on the screen
>were covered BUT they were covered in a way that
>looked random but really wasnt.
>
>I'm looking for a way to "randomly" choose items
>from a list. Once the item has been chosen, its
>removed from the list and hopefully this "random"
>method wont choose that item again.
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>W.


I think it was RP. But for what you want, I think there was  a list
discussion recently here that gave you that. Jay might have posted it? I
forget.


You are wanting something like a RND(listItems) that will only return that
which hasn't been returned before, correct?

RC