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.
When filling in a cyclic subgroup or one of its cosets, I've often
found I wanted to set an entire diagonal to the same thing at once
(usually SW-NE, but the other way round too in non-abelian groups),
and it's a pain having to do that to each square individually.
Restricting multiple selection to diagonals makes it easy to get the
selection I really wanted.
When you drag group elements around, previous dividers are meant to
dissolve whenever the same two elements are no longer on each side of
it. One case in which this didn't happen was that of dragging an
element from the left of a divider to the far right column - the
divider became invisible, but would then startlingly reappear if you
drag that element back to the left of whatever it was left of before.
[originally from svn r10051]
to it giving each game's "internal" name (as seen in the source file,
.R etc) and also a brief description of the game. The idea of the
latter is that it should be usable as a comment field in .desktop
files and similar.
[originally from svn r9858]
puzzle backend function which ought to have it, and propagate those
consts through to per-puzzle subroutines as needed.
I've recently had to do that to a few specific parameters which were
being misused by particular puzzles (r9657, r9830), which suggests
that it's probably a good idea to do the whole lot pre-emptively
before the next such problem shows up.
[originally from svn r9832]
[r9657 == 3b250baa02a7332510685948bf17576c397b8ceb]
[r9830 == 0b93de904a98f119b1a95d3a53029f1ed4bfb9b3]
new_desc. Oddities in the 'make test' output brought to my attention
that a few puzzles have been modifying their input game_params for
various reasons; they shouldn't do that, because that's the
game_params held permanently by the midend and it will affect
subsequent game generations if they modify it. So now those arguments
are const, and all the games which previously modified their
game_params now take a copy and modify that instead.
[originally from svn r9830]
in the 'unfinished' directory for a while, and has now been finished
up thanks to James Harvey putting in some effort and galvanising me to
put in the rest. This is 'Pearl', an implementation of Nikoli's 'Masyu'.
The code in Loopy that generates a random loop along grid edges to use
as the puzzle solution has been abstracted out into loopgen.[ch] so
that Pearl can use it for its puzzle solutions too. I've also
introduced a new utility module called 'tdq' (for 'to-do queue').
[originally from svn r9379]
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]
thereafter read. Most of these changes are just removal of pointless
stuff or trivial reorganisations; one change is actually substantive,
and fixes a bug in Keen's clue selection (the variable 'bad' was
unreferenced not because I shouldn't have set it, but because I
_should_ have referenced it!).
[originally from svn r9164]
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]
elements to toggle thick lines in the grid. Helps to delineate
subgroups and cosets, so it's easier to remember what you can
legitimately fill in by associativity.
(I should really stop fiddling with this game's UI; it's far too silly.)
[originally from svn r9084]
much easier to keep track of things if, once you've identified a
cyclic subgroup, you can move it into a contiguous correctly ordered
block.
[originally from svn r9075]
- move critical correctness checks out of diagnostic ifdefs (ahem)
- move declarations to before conditionally compiled code (we don't
build in C99 mode round here)
- tidy up an unsightly blank line while I'm here.
[originally from svn r8969]
immediately obvious which element of the group is the identity - at
least two elements including the identity have their rows and
columns completely blanked.
[originally from svn r8810]
you are given a partially specified Cayley table of a small finite
group, and must fill in all the missing entries using both Sudoku-
style deductions (minus the square block constraint) and the group
axioms. I've just thrown it together in about five hours by cloning-
and-hacking from Keen, as much as anything else to demonstrate that
the new latin.c interface really does make it extremely easy to
write new Latin square puzzles.
It's not really _unfinished_, as such, but it is just too esoteric
(not to mention difficult) for me to feel entirely comfortable with
adding it to the main puzzle collection. I can't bring myself to
throw it away, though, and who knows - perhaps a university maths
department might find it a useful teaching tool :-)
[originally from svn r8800]
_conditionally_ able to format the current puzzle as text to be sent
to the clipboard. For instance, if a game were to support playing on
a square grid and on other kinds of grid such as hexagonal, then it
might reasonably feel that only the former could be sensibly
rendered in ASCII art; so it can now arrange for the "Copy" menu
item to be greyed out depending on the game_params.
To do this I've introduced a new backend function
(can_format_as_text_now()), and renamed the existing static backend
field "can_format_as_text" to "can_format_as_text_ever". The latter
will cause compile errors for anyone maintaining a third-party front
end; if any such person is reading this, I apologise to them for the
inconvenience, but I did do it deliberately so that they'd know to
update their front end.
As yet, no checked-in game actually uses this feature; all current
games can still either copy always or copy never.
[originally from svn r8161]
print all possible paths to a value. The latter has a lot of
de-duplication left to be done, due to multiple evaluation orders.
[originally from svn r8061]
(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]
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]
