[David Easton] ''05 Jan 2005''

''Jigsaw Puzzler'' is a jigsaw puzzle game.  It allows jigsaws to be created, saved, loaded and played.  I started writing it over a year ago to learn more about using the [canvas].

The [windows] executable version uses [tile] and so has a native look on Windows.

[http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/davidelizabeth/tcl/jigsaw/jigsaw.jpg]
[http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/davidelizabeth/tcl/jigsaw/create.gif]

I expect to provide some jigsaws to download from the link below soon.

It is freely available from: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/davidelizabeth/tcl/jigsaw/index.html

[PWQ] ''6 Jan 2005'' , could not find email address for DPE, under linux if you browse and load a file. you get an error when generating the jigsaw.
This is because the tk file dialog window still exists. The fix is to ignore this window during statechange.
Fore example:
 proc stateChange { w mode } {
    global sc
    if {![info exists sc(init)]} {
        stateChangeInit
    }
	if {[string first {__tk_filedialog} $w] != -1 } {return}   
    set class [winfo class $w]
    ...

[DPE] ''8 Jan 2005'' Thanks [PWQ], I've uploaded a new version (0.8) of jigsaw.kit including this fix and have tested it on Windows XP and HPUX. BTW, email is ''deaston'' at ''airspan'' dot ''com''

[WJG] ''7 Jan 2005'' Just downloaded Jigsaw Puzzler, my four year old really loves it. Nice one!

[DPE] ''7 Jan 2005'' Glad you like it - thanks for the feedback.

[HZe] ''8 Jan 2005'' That's really cute! I love it. While playing, I had some extensions in mind I would like to share. Perhaps they can easily be added:

    * add 90��° rotation as option to make it more difficult (only as option)
    * add selecting a group of pieces to move them all togehter (nice to have; this is useful, if you first start to sort some of the pieces by color or so and you want to move all of them together out of the way)
    * add a preview of the image while playing
    * make it possible to change the background while playing (it's difficult to judge what background would be perfect for everybody)

It must be perfect to play this on a touchscreen...

[LES]: I like this game. My girlfriend loves it. But as I have been using Linux more often recently, I ran into a problem: I can't save or load puzzles in Linux. I will log into Linux again a few hours later and come back here to provide an accurate account of the error message.

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