Re: Show remaining numbers hack for gnome-sudoku

["Jeff Bailey" <jbailey raspberryginger com>]

On 12/12/06, Andreas Røsdal <andrearo pvv ntnu no> wrote:

> > Hi!  I find myself keeping a spare gedit window open to track the
> > numbers that I've finished dealing with.
> >
> > This patch causes these to get displayed in the status bar
> > unconditionally.  This patch isn't final, I still want to make it
> > optional, etc.  But before I go and remind myself how gtk works, I
> > wanted to get feedback on it.

> Nice idea, this change seems useful to me. I tried using it during parts
> of a game, and it seems sane. Any objection to this change from anyone?

In the absence of objections, I'll code this up as a menu option to
make it optional and submit a more final patch.

> Are there other ways of displaying this information? When you double click
> on a square, you get a number-selection-widget, which could also disable
> numbers which you're finished dealing with.
>
> But then again, I'm sceptical to automating too much of the game-play.

That seems to go a bit beyond the spirit of what i'm thinking of,
although it would cerainly be an easy enough hack once the numbers are
tracked.

> Have you seen "Solve Sudoku (Without even thinking!)":
> http://www.instructables.com/id/EJLUBKN48JEPD7QXGR/?ALLSTEPS

Heh, I hadn't. =)

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