Sudoku
Posted: Saturday 29th January 2022 3:07pm
Can you point me to an example of a different input method?Nice interface. Even though it requires the keyboard for number entry
Did you try expanding the program?A good choice of font size vs board size
Good point, I will look at this.The one annoyance I found with it was the need to click after an incorrect number before being able to hit the backspace button (or click in font of the number if using the delete key).
1/. You can turn the various switches off to stop the 'helpful displays'. Or am I missing the point?The features I would like to see in this game:
1/. A switch to turn off highlighting of all errors.
2/. A switch to highlight bad moves (aka two of the same digits on the same row)
3/. Being able to write notes
4/. Stats (fastest time, longest time, average time, number games played)
Open Sudoku for Android (I use the F-Droid version but their website appears to be in maintence at the moment so this is the Google Play version) This version you have a few options for inputing numbers. This view is what I refer to as a systematically entering of numbers. You chose which number you want to enter (in this shot I choose the number 2), it then highlights all the '2's on the board (just like yours does), but then you click on the board and it enters a 2 into that space for you. Problem with this design, they require you to select a 'Clear' (the 'C' button) to delete a number on the board. Why can't we delete the number if a '2' is already there? I found this to be the best input format for non keyboarded systems.
Yes and it worked wonderfully! The font even increased properly with the size of the board.Did you try expanding the program?
OH! For some reason I thought that was for the help/about window.1/. You can turn the various switches off to stop the 'helpful displays'. Or am I missing the point?
Yes this would take some extra logic.2/. I'll have a look at this.
Here's an example of Open Sudoku with all notes filled in. Often players will fill in all possible numbers in each square so they can solve harder puzzles. For example, in this screen cap the first row, second column we find that 1 is the only number that fits there. So we can enter it in. In Open Sudoku they have a function where they can automatically fill in all notes like you see here. To me that's a bit of cheating. But they also allow players to add what ever numbers they want as notes in each square (operated by toggling the pencil button first). That is useful.3/. Can you point me to any examples of this feature?
Yeah, I'm a stats junky!4/. I'll have a look at this.
- FixedSpeaking of which, the ToolButtonStats has the wrong ToolTip info on it.
- I have tried this twice and a new game is created. Once the Easy game was complete, I pressed Medium game and a new game was created, is that what you did?Edit: Yep I was able to repeat a game by switching levels after winning.