The original question was:


>Dear list
>
>I am not a very experienced AVE programmer so before I go through the
>hassle of trying to write this myself, does anyone know of a batch
>script that can create large numbers of random point themes. Ideally I
>want to create c.100 themes of a specified (uniform) number of points
>each, randomly located within an irregular polygonal area.
>
>Any ideas?



Many thanks to all who replied.

No one has actually produced an extension to do this so far, but it is
eminently feasible. For the short term I ended up creating the sets one
by one. The two best extensions I found (with really good levels of
background documentation for each) were those from

from Bill Huber at Quantitative Decisions:
www.quantdec.com (see free software, ‘Simple Random Sample’)

and Jeff Jenness’ website:
http://www.jennessent.com/arcview/random_points.htm

cheers for the help!