RE: [Aisleriot] Freecell game selection, Redmond style

[Andreas Røsdal <andrearo pvv ntnu no>]

On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, Bastien-F Jonathan wrote:

> > This is a good thing but I should mention that the ability to start games
> > based on a specific seed was previously removed from Gnome Games.  It was
> > a rather a fiddly option and there were some calls in bugzilla for seeds
> > which actually matched the pattern of Microsoft Freecell as you have now
> > implemented.  If you can put a nice unobtrustive user interface on this
> > feature it should be good.  For what it is worth Pretty Good Solitaire
> > (Goodsol) sticks to the same pattern, as much as is possible.
> Ok, I'll look into how goodsol does it, and make it as unobtrusive/friendly as possible. I will start by re-adding seed support in the UI, that will be my first set of patches. The second set will add redmond-style game generation to Freecell (it will probably add a checkbox or something, too). How does that sound ?
>
> > Being able to start specific games with easily predicted out comes (like a
> > completely unshuffled deck) might serve as useful test cases to smoke test
> > Aisleriot.
> Does gnome-games currently have unit testing ?

Yes, take a look at:
http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnome-games/trunk/tests/

Feel free to contribute some more unit tests.

 - Andreas