(solving it only requires matrix inversion over GF(2), whereas
several of the other puzzles in this collection are NP-complete in
principle), but it's a fun enough thing to play with and is
non-trivial to do in your head - especially on the hardest preset.
[originally from svn r5967]
symmetry which were not implemented in Solo. Now they are.
In the process I've completely retired symmetry_limit() on the
grounds that some of the new symmetries do not have a rectangular
base region; instead I determine the base region by going through
the grid and finding every square which is not transformed into a
lexicographically lower square by any symmetry operation. This means
that adding new symmetries is now _only_ a matter of encoding the
actual transformation rules.
[originally from svn r5965]
from saying `Auto-solved' or `Completed', the main function of the
status bar is to track the current size of a rectangle you're
dragging out, which makes life much easier when trying to count up
large rectangles in 19x19 mode.
[originally from svn r5937]
gdk_font_from_description() will no longer even _try_ to return a
font matching the specified Pango font description; instead it will
return `fixed' no matter what you do. Therefore, I've had to switch
to using Pango proper for Puzzles text rendering, rather than just
using Pango for font selection.
[originally from svn r5936]
called `CURSOR_SELECT', intended for platforms which have a fire
button to go with their cursor keys. (Apparently some Palms do.)
CURSOR_SELECT is not bound to anything on any of the current three
platforms, and therefore no game may rely on it being available.
This checkin adds it in Net as a synonym for 'a', the keyboard-based
rotate-left command.
[originally from svn r5915]
in terms of a constant TILE_SIZE (or equivalent). Here's a
surprisingly small patch which switches this constant into a
run-time variable.
The only observable behaviour change should be on Windows, which
physically does not permit the creation of windows larger than the
screen; if you try to create a puzzle (Net makes this plausible)
large enough to encounter this restriction, the Windows front end
should automatically re-adjust the puzzle's tile size so that it
does fit within the available space.
On GTK, I haven't done this, on the grounds that X _does_ permit
windows larger than the screen, and many X window managers already
provide the means to navigate around such a window. Gareth said he'd
rather navigate around a huge Net window than have it shrunk to fit
on one screen. I'm uncertain that this makes sense for all puzzles -
Pattern in particular strikes me as something that might be better
off shrunk to fit - so I may have to change policy later or make it
configurable.
On OS X, I also haven't done automatic shrinkage to fit on one
screen, largely because I didn't have the courage to address the
question of multiple monitors and what that means for the entire
concept :-)
[originally from svn r5913]
of these recently) whose job is to update a game_ui to be consistent
with a new game_state. This is called by midend.c in every situation
where the current game_state changes _other_ than as a result of
make_move (Undo, Redo, Restart, Solve).
The introduction of this function allows a game_ui to contain
information about selections or highlights within a game_state which
simply wouldn't make sense when transferred to another game_state.
In particular, I've used it to fix a subtle bug in Solo whereby,
although you couldn't right-click to pencil-mode highlight a filled
square, you could _get_ a pencil-mode highlight in a filled square
if you used Undo and Redo. (Undo to before the square was filled,
right-click to highlight it, then Redo. Alternatively, left-click
and clear the square, right-click to highlight it, then Undo.)
[originally from svn r5912]
their coordinates were outside the playing area. Clearly no actual
move should be made in that situation, but we do at least need to
sort out any highlighted squares from the prior dragging operations.
[originally from svn r5911]
and positioned according to how many there are in the cell, rather
than how many distinct digits there are in the entire puzzle. This
means that 4x4 Solo can now be played with pencil marks without
_too_ much difficulty; the marks will still get a bit crowded if you
have more than 12 in the same square, but with luck that shouldn't
happen often, and as long as you're down in the 2-9 range things
should be entirely legible.
[originally from svn r5909]
symbol for enabling diagnostics, presumably because in his Palm port
it means something else as well. He sent this patch to switch Net
and Netslide over to using GENERATION_DIAGNOSTICS, in the fashion of
the newer games.
[originally from svn r5908]
usefully be equivalent to right-clicking on platforms other than OS
X; in particular, it's useful if you're running Linux on Apple
hardware such as PowerBook which inherently has only one button. So
here's the fix for GTK, and Windows as well (the latter for
completeness and consistency, not because I can actually think of
any reason somebody might be running Windows on one-button
hardware).
[originally from svn r5907]
mine density without (as you would with a conventional random grid
generator) rendering the game completely unplayable. High mine
densities are really good fun, and the point of the presets menu is
to provide people with pre-tested good settings and things they
might not have thought to try for themselves; so here are three
additional presets with high densities.
[originally from svn r5906]
utility to convert descriptive game IDs containing mine bitmaps
between obfuscated and cleartext. Might be handy for anyone planning
to design custom levels to send to friends (mines spelling out
`Happy Birthday', that sort of thing), as someone suggested to me
today :-)
[originally from svn r5903]
haven't checked in Makefile changes to enable this, but I'll at
least fix the specific problems it found when enabled as a one-off.
[originally from svn r5902]
headers; but MIN()/MAX() conflict with glib. Let's keep the lower-case ones,
and assume that any provided by the system have the obvious semantics.
[originally from svn r5900]
any actual clashes (duplicate numbers in a row, column or block) in
red. This is a non-privileged deduction: it doesn't compare against
a known solution or consult a solver. It simply indicates reasons
why (no superset of) the current grid would cause the completion
flash to go off.
[originally from svn r5898]
- fixed numerous memory leaks (not Palm-specific)
- corrected a couple of 32-bit-int assumptions (vital for Palm but
generally a good thing anyway)
- lifted a few function pointer types into explicit typedefs
(neutral for me but convenient for the source-munging Perl
scripts he uses to deal with Palm code segment rules)
- lifted a few function-level static arrays into global static
arrays (neutral for me but apparently works round a Palm tools
bug)
- a couple more presets in Rectangles (so that Palm, or any other
slow platform which can't handle the larger sizes easily, can
still have some variety available)
- in Solo, arranged a means of sharing scratch space between calls
to nsolve to prevent a lot of redundant malloc/frees (gives a 10%
speed increase even on existing platforms)
[originally from svn r5897]
hanging the grid generator and that there's no way to fix it.
Therefore, lower limit of 3 squares in each direction, which will
upset envelope-pushers everywhere but doesn't destroy any actually
interesting puzzles.
[originally from svn r5895]
- prevent highlighting a clue square at all
- enable easier switching between highlight types by not requiring
a left-click highlight to be left-click-cancelled before
right-clicking, and vice versa
- fix bit-rot in -DSTANDALONE_SOLVER
Also one of mine:
- replicate Richard's -DSTANDALONE_SOLVER fix in Pattern, where it
was also broken.
[originally from svn r5892]
- middle button now also triggers the clear-around-square action
- a special-case handler in midend_process_key() arranges that the
left button always trumps the right button if both are pressed
together, meaning that Windows Minesweeper players used to
pressing L+R to clear around a square should still be able to do
so without any strange behaviour.
(The latter touches all game backends, yet again, to add a field to
the game structure which is zero in everything except Mines.)
[originally from svn r5888]
Rather than revealing the entire mine layout when you die, we now
only reveal the one mine that killed you. You can then Undo and
continue playing, without having spoiled the rest of the grid for
yourself. The number of times you've died is counted in the status
line (and is not reduced by Undo :-).
Amusingly, I think this in itself is quite a good way of dealing
with ambiguous sections in a Minesweeper grid: they no longer
_completely_ spoil your enjoyment of the game, because you can still
play the remainder of the grid even if you haven't got a completely
clean sweep. Just my luck that I should invent the idea when I've
already arranged for ambiguous sections to be absent :-)
[originally from svn r5886]
the Mines unique grid generator fails at high mine densities it is
_almost always_ for the same reason, and it also turns out that this
reason is one which can be addressed. So here's an enhancement to
mineperturb() which enables Mines to generate a grid at (as far as I
can tell) any mine density you like, up to and including w*h-9
mines. At densities of 1 in 2 or thereabouts the grids start to look
rather strange, but it can at least generate them without hanging.
[originally from svn r5885]
function rather less uniform-looking than I'd intended. I _thought_
it looked a bit fishy, but had assumed it was just the human
tendency to see patterns where none exist. Now fixed, and some real
test vectors confirm that this time the obfuscation function is
actually what I intended it to be.
This means that all masked game IDs generated before this revision
are now invalid. That's a shame, but the game is only a day old and
I think I can reasonably justify it as teething trouble.
[originally from svn r5883]
and it moves the polyhedron in the general direction of the mouse
pointer. (I had this in my initial throwaway Python implementation
of this game, but never reimplemented it in this version. It's
harder with triangles, but not too much harder.)
Since the logical-to-physical coordinate mapping in Cube is
dynamically computed, this has involved an interface change which
touches all puzzles: make_move() is now passed a pointer to the
game_drawstate, which it may of course completely ignore if it
wishes.
[originally from svn r5877]
