To do this, I've completely replaced the API between mid-end and front
end, so any downstream front end maintainers will have to do some
rewriting of their own (sorry). I've done the necessary work in all
five of the front ends I keep in-tree here - Windows, GTK, OS X,
Javascript/Emscripten, and Java/NestedVM - and I've done it in various
different styles (as each front end found most convenient), so that
should provide a variety of sample code to show downstreams how, if
they should need it.
I've left in the old puzzle back-end API function to return a flat
list of presets, so for the moment, all the puzzle backends are
unchanged apart from an extra null pointer appearing in their
top-level game structure. In a future commit I'll actually use the new
feature in a puzzle; perhaps in the further future it might make sense
to migrate all the puzzles to the new API and stop providing back ends
with two alternative ways of doing things, but this seemed like enough
upheaval for one day.
These are necessary because the argument to a ctype function cannot be
a negative value unless it's EOF. Thanks to Cygwin gcc for pointing
out the mistake, and to Patrick Shaughnessy for this patch.
A user pointed out that if you construct a 'solution' in which no clue
square has too _many_ borders but at least one has too few, and then
bring those clues up to their count by adding extra stray border lines
_inside_ a connected component (avoiding actually dividing any
component completely into two), then the game checker treats that as
solved for victory-flash purposes, on the grounds that (a) the grid is
divided into components of the right size and (b) all clues are
satisfied.
A small example is 4x4n4:22a2b2c33, with the non-solution of dividing
the grid into four 2x2 square blocks and then adding a spurious extra
edge between the two 3 clues. The old Palisade completion check would
flash for victory _at the same time_ as highlighting the spurious edge
in COL_ERROR.
Fixed by enforcing in is_solved() that every border line must separate
two distinct connected components.
The solve move stored in 'aux' by new_game_desc consists of printable
characters in the range '@' to 'O', each representing a 4-bit bitmap
of edges around a cell. But the one generated on the fly by
solve_game() was missing out the 0x40 bit and just returning
characters in the range ^@ to ^O - which would not only have been
horrible if you found such a string in a save file, but also meant
that a game with any completely borderless square would have a
solution move string terminating early due to the ^@, causing
execute_move() to reject it.
Example: ./palisade --test-solve --generate 1 5x5n5#12345-37 now
succeeds, where previously it failed an assertion.
