[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://www.easton.me.uk/tcl/jigsaw/jigsaw.jpg]
[http://www.easton.me.uk/tcl/jigsaw/create.gif]

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

It is freely available from: http://www.easton.me.uk/tcl/jigsaw/index.html

'''Change History'''

'''Version 0.9''' ''28 Feb 2005''
   * Fixed problem opening/saving puzzle files under linux and ActiveTcl 8.4.9 (Reported by [LES])
   * Fixed bug in percentage complete calculation when loading a previously saved file (Reported by [JAG])
   * Cross platform starkit no longer contains any binary extensions

'''Version 0.8''' ''08 Jan 2005''
   * Fixed stack trace when loading a file under linux (problem found and fix provided by [PWQ])

'''Version 0.7''' ''05 Jan 2005''
   * First public release
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[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...

[DPE] ''21 Feb 2005'' Thanks for the feedback.  These are good ideas that I have considered adding and will put in if I develop this any further.
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[JAG], 21-Feb-05 - Very cool app... My daughter loves it...  Nicely done... I've used it on both WinXP Pro and Win98 without errors of any kind, though I did discover what appears to be a small bug.  When loading a puzzle (Jigsaw | Open), the "Percentage of Completion" shown at the bottom of the screen seems to be overestimated.  For instance, a puzzle that was saved in an entirely completed state will reload and show "144% Complete".  A puzzle that was saved with 0% completion reloads as "2% Complete".  Oh, one more thing - internally, in the "help" proc, it appears that Jigsaw was authored by me, and beta tested by my daughter.  You might want to update that text... ;^)

[DPE] ''28 Feb 2005'' Hmm - I wonder where I borrowed that help text from :-).  I've removed it for the next release - version 0.9.  Thanks for the error report, the percentage completion is also fixed in version 0.9.

[WJP] 2007-06-28 I decided to pack a single puzzle into a Starpack, with jigsaw.tcl modified to load
my puzzle file, so that I could send the puzzle to a friend who would find installing Tcl etc. too difficult.
If I create an MS Windows Starpack and run it on Linux under Wine, it works. If I create a Linux Starpack, it is unable to load the puzzle file. It is looking for it in the right place but for some reason the load
fails. This is with Tcl 8.4.14. Any idea what is wrong? I notice in the changelog mention of problems with previous versions of Tcl that are said to have been fixed.

[DPE] 2007-06-28 I think the starkit contained the JPEG image part of Img for Windows only.  If the source image is JPEG then it probably will not load in Linux.  Have you tried it with a GIF source image as this might work under Linux?

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