Re: Show remaining numbers hack for gnome-sudoku

["Jeff Bailey" <jbailey raspberryginger com>]

On 12/12/06, Thomas Mills Hinkle <tmhinkle gmail com> wrote:
> On 12/12/06, Jeff Bailey <jbailey raspberryginger com> wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Sorry -- I still haven't applied the patch, which would make it obvious what
> it does. That said, I'm confused about what you mean by "the  numbers I'm
> finished dealing with".

This is significnatly less helpful than the always show hints.  In the
status bar at the bottom, it will say:

Playing Puzzle 79 - Facile (0.04) Remaining Number: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Once you have 9 of a number on the board, it gets removed from the list.

So it's not helping you with any specific position, but giving a
general hint about the state of the board.

I wind up keeping the exact same notes about every puzzle I do anyway. =)

> It occurs to me that if we do include this, we'll have to get more specific
> than "hints" for menu descriptions, etc.

I was thinking a menu option that says "Show remaining numbers"

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