remembering whether the player had ever used the hint or solve
functions, even if they then pressed undo (and even if they saved and
restored).
As far as Solve+Undo is concerned, this just brings Range into line
with common practice in the rest of my puzzles. On the other hand,
Range is the first time there's been a 'hint' function to consider in
this question, so here's a policy decision: the victory flash is not a
congratulation for a puzzle solved unaided, it's a confirmation that
you really have reached a correct solution and haven't made any
mistakes. So the only reason to omit the victory flash is if you've
used the Solve operation to go straight to a guaranteed-correct
solution _in a single move_; if you're using the hint button, there's
still scope for you to make mistakes in all your non-hint moves, so
the victory flash is still a useful indicator that you didn't.
[originally from svn r9306]
midend_status(), and given it three return codes for win, (permanent)
loss and game-still-in-play. Depending on what the front end wants to
use it for, it may find any or all of these three states worth
distinguishing from each other.
(I suppose a further enhancement might be to add _non_-permanent loss
as a fourth distinct status, to describe situations in which you can't
play further without pressing Undo but doing so is not completely
pointless. That might reasonably include dead-end situations in Same
Game and Pegs, and blown-self-up situations in Mines and Inertia.
However, I haven't done this at present.)
[originally from svn r9179]
additions of missing 'static' and explicit 'void' in parameter lists,
plus one or two other things like explicitly casting chars in variadic
argument lists to int and using DBL_MAX if HUGE_VAL isn't available.
[originally from svn r9166]
state is in a solved position, and a midend function wrapping it.
(Or, at least, a situation in which further play is pointless. The
point is, given that game state, would it be a good idea for a front
end that does that sort of thing to proactively provide the option to
start a fresh game?)
[originally from svn r9140]
