ANN: Sudoku Assistant

[Dan Shafer]

Alex.....

Thanks for the fast update. I'll go play with the new version.

MEanwhile, I've discovered the Sudoku of the Day, an excellent Mac  
shareware program that generates new puzzles and saves, and a  
Dashboard Widget that plays quite nicely as well.

I have not yet solved my first puzzle completely but I'm determined  
to do so today.

These things are addictive!

Dan

On Jul 30, 2005, at 2:20 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote:

> Alex Tweedly wrote:
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>>
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>>> It occurred to me it would be way cool if I could take a puzzle  
>>> from  a magazine, enter the givens in your assistant and save it.  
>>> I know  you have a mechanism for loading a text file with a known  
>>> format that  would also accomplish that but unless you have plans  
>>> to implement  that, I may take a crack at it.
>>>
>>>
>> That would be very easy - I'll do that at the same time as I fix  
>> the spelling mistakes in the Help info and re-upload to RevOnline  
>> in an hour or so ....
>>
>>
> OK, done.
> Beware that it does NOT make any sanity check on the puzzle as you  
> save it - so if you have specified some values that do not permit  
> any possible completion - it gets saved. Even if you have already  
> got to a blocking point (with "?s showing), it gets saved.
> The file format is the same as used for loading - so every square  
> is either a known, fixed, single digit - or is shown as "x". So if  
> you are working through a puzzle, and have reduced the number of  
> possible values in other squares - possibly down to a single  
> remaining value - they are nevertheless all shown as "x". It is  
> only those squares that you have defined that get their digit in  
> the file.
>
> btw - it's still faster to edit the file by hand :-)   Depends on  
> whether your a "command line, text editor" user or a GUI guy :-)
>
> Also fixed some typos in Help, removed the annoying "put ... msg",  
> and added version number (1.1)
> Didn't manage reproduce the "square goes blank" problem yet.
>
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> Alex Tweedly       http://www.tweedly.net
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