(require both main diagonals to have one of every digit in addition
to all the usual constraints) and Jigsaw Sudoku (replace the array
of rectangular sub-blocks with the sub-blocks being random
polyominoes). To implement the latter, I've moved my `divvy.c'
library routine out of the `unfinished' subdirectory.
Jigsaw mode is currently an undocumented feature: you enable it by
setting the rows parameter to 1 (and the columns parameter to your
desired grid size, which unlike normal Sudoku can be anything you
like including a prime number). The reason it's undocumented is
because generation times are not yet reliably short: sometimes
generating a jigsaw-type puzzle can hang for hours and still get
nowhere. (The algorithm should terminate in principle, but not in
any time you're prepared to wait.) I _think_ I know how to solve
this, but have yet to try it. Until then, jigsaw mode will remain a
hidden feature.
Printing of X-type puzzles is also substandard at present, because
the current print-colour API replaces the desired light shading of
the X-cells with heavy diagonal hatching. I plan to adjust the API
imminently to address this.
[originally from svn r7974]
it got rid of the bogus backgrounds on all the text; but on the
other hand it mysteriously caused all the images to become black and
white! Serves me right for testing with Bridges which was B&W to
start with. Instead, we'll just tell xvfb to use a 24-bit display
and let it sort out the visuals for itself; that seems to work better.
[originally from svn r7932]
generates PPC/Intel dual-architecture binaries.
This turns out not to be too painful: you compile and link your
programs using `gcc -arch ppc' or `gcc -arch i386', then you use a
command of the form `lipo -create ppc-binary i386-binary -output
binary' to construct a universal binary. It works equally well on
command-line standalone executable files and the executables within
application directories. Also added the -mmacosx-version-min option,
since otherwise the OS X build tools appear to default to building
binaries which will crash (without anything resembling a
comprehensible error message) on any earlier release.
The handling of version.o in this checkin is somewhat grotty. I'd
prefer a method more cleverly intertwingled with mkfiles.pl so I
didn't have to maintain the OS X architecture list in both
mkfiles.pl and Recipe. (Not that I anticipate Apple switching
architectures again in the immediate future, but it's the principle
of the thing.)
[originally from svn r7916]
(This change adds a new possibility to the save format, such that new save
files won't necessarily be loadable by old binaries. I think that's acceptable
-- it's certainly happened before -- but I couldn't find anything in the
developer docs explicitly blessing it.)
[originally from svn r7849]
connected polyominoes actually causes a loss of generality for
sufficiently large k. I hadn't previously noticed, because you need
k to be (I think) at least 23 and none of my potential applications
require anything nearly that large. Add some discussion of this.
[originally from svn r7701]
works, but it's slow, and the puzzles are currently at a relatively
low level of difficulty. Also this is a generator only: no UI yet
(because I'm waiting to see if I can make the generator practical
before bothering to write the rest).
[originally from svn r7700]
arbitrary unclaimed square. This cures the most common cause of
generation failures (covering a large area in dominoes was the most
difficult case, and would fail even if the large area was 1xn!); the
failure rate is now sufficiently low under all circumstances I've
found that I'm willing to just loop until I get a success.
[originally from svn r7693]
rectangle into equally sized ominoes. I have a couple of potential
applications for this, but none I've actually implemented yet, so
for the moment it's living in `unfinished'.
[originally from svn r7690]
suppress the display of `this square can't be a light' blobs in a
lit square, on the grounds that we already know _lit_ squares can't
be lights. This makes the solved game look cleaner (I've always
thought the detritus of blobs on some but not all non-light squares
looked messy), but on the other hand it's slightly jarring during
play. So I'm checking it in, but as a configurable option which is
off by default.
[originally from svn r7656]
`clues' array being able to be -1, so we must explicitly declare it
as `signed char' or it will break on platforms whose default char is
unsigned.
[originally from svn r7636]
about eating the letter `d' (for `diagonal') when it appears in a
symmtery description: it should only be used after `m', because
mirror symmetry is the only type that can be diagonal. This was
causing parsing of the parameter description `3x3adu' to produce the
wrong answer: the d would be swallowed, then the u ignored for being
incomprehensible, and you'd get default Trivial difficulty.
[originally from svn r7386]
across changes in game parameters (e.g., changing difficulty without changing
size). This also has the effect of preserving the user-selected tilesize if the
grid size is changed. (From Debian bug#379452.)
[originally from svn r7368]
(from Debian bug#379452).
Tested on Gtk 2. I've been unable to find a Gtk+-1.2 installation on which
Puzzles compiles, so not tested there.
[originally from svn r7367]
amount of code. James has ripped out the solver's version of
check_complete(), in favour of using the one I wrote for the
game-playing UI. My one checks connectedness, which means that the
solver will now not believe non-solutions to puzzles where
connectedness becomes a difficult issue. Examples of game IDs which
are now solved correctly but were previously not are 5x3:ubb and
7x7:ajfzmfqgtdzgt.
[originally from svn r7362]
