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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]
This is the README accompanying the source code to Simon Tatham's puzzle collection. The collection's web site is at <http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/>. You should find several Makefiles in the source code: - `Makefile' should work under GNU make on Linux, provided you have GTK installed to compile and link against. It builds GTK binaries of the puzzle games. - `Makefile.vc' should work under MS Visual C++ on Windows. - `Makefile.cyg' should work under Cygwin / MinGW. With appropriate tweaks and setting of TOOLPATH, it should work for both compiling on Windows and cross-compiling on Unix. - `Makefile.osx' should work under Mac OS X, provided the Xcode tools are installed. It builds a single monolithic OS X application capable of running any of the puzzles, or even more than one of them at a time. Many of these Makefiles build a program called `nullgame' in addition to the actual game binaries. This program doesn't do anything; it's just a template for people to start from when adding a new game to the collection, and it's compiled every time to ensure that it _does_ compile and link successfully (because otherwise it wouldn't be much use as a template). Once it's built, you can run it if you really want to (but it's very boring), and then you should ignore it. DO NOT EDIT THE MAKEFILES DIRECTLY, if you plan to send any changes back to the maintainer. The makefiles are generated automatically by the Perl script `mkfiles.pl' from the file `Recipe'. If you need to change the makefiles as part of a patch, you should change Recipe and/or mkfiles.pl. The manual is provided in Windows Help format for the Windows build; in text format for anyone who needs it; and in HTML for the Mac OS X application and for the web site. It is generated from a Halibut source file (puzzles.but), which is the preferred form for modification. To generate the manual in other formats, rebuild it, or learn about Halibut, visit the Halibut website at <http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/halibut/>.