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I got the puzzle generator working well enough to generate the puzzle I needed. I’m done with this project. It was interesting when I decided to add clumped words to the algorithm. Four words can all come together in a four-letter clump. It’s a situation that the normal…
Continue readingClump of Letters After looking at this for a while, I figured out how to write the code to handle it. I also figured out another type of clump that I could try to handle as a special case but only if I had some three-letter words. To…
Continue readingI added code to save my crossword puzzle and solution to two bitmap files. It is interesting how many people write code to do things of this sort that don’t write it correctly. Puzzle Bitmap void CChildView::SaveImageToFile( const char *pFilename, bool bSolution ) { CSize GridSize = GetGridCellSize();…
Continue readingCrossword puzzles are supposed to be designed with a lot of white squares in clumps and with some sort of symmetry. There are different style traditions in the U.S., the U.K, and Japan. Sweden has a very strange looking puzzle style that is a bit different but having…
Continue readingI searched high and low for information about icons in menus. The only thing I found was a lot of people discussing how to use SetMenuItemBitmaps(). Unfortunately, SetMenuItemBitmaps() is for setting the check mark bitmaps, the checked and unchecked image, of the menu item. I tried this in…
Continue readingI am working again on the puzzle race. I got distracted six or eight months ago with a paying programming gig but I’m free now and I want to have the puzzle race next Spring. In case no one reading this knows anything about a puzzle race or…
Continue readingI have a Facebook account, a Linkedin account, a blog, a personal website, and a Twitter account. I mostly use the blog for any type of information that I want to share but the blog has its shortcomings. For one thing, no one reads it. I use the…
Continue readingI have finished another RBS (Rolling Ball Sculpture). The wife and kid picked out the colors. RBS Still Image RBS Video This is about 12 inches tall. It has one reversing section and a cool looking finale. The ball track is 3/32″ steel welding rod brazed at all…
Continue reading… or How I added something rather unimportant to the Linkage program but had to blog about it just to make a blog entry today. The Microsoft Ribbon Bar, which is just a toolbar designed to completely replace the program menu and toolbars, has an interesting feature that…
Continue readingI went ahead and separated the View pane in the ribbon bar from the new Dimensions pane in the Linkage program. I am not sure how to label the “show dimensions” check box. Since it is in the Dimensions pane, I can’t really call it “dimensions.” What I…
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