[MG] Nov 26 2007 - Quite some time ago, I wrote a copy of Freecell, 
one of the card games shipped with Windows XP (and other versions, 
I think) with a friend of mine. I've finally gotten around to uploading the code, 
which you can find on my website (http://www.talvo.com/tcl-code.php) 
as it's rather large for a wiki page.

It's pretty similar to the Windows version, though is definitely missing at least one feature: 
when you move cards, it always moves the most it can, rather than giving you the choice 
between moving a single card/the column.

The friend I wrote it with is also multi-lingual, 
so it runs in four different languages, using [msgcat].

Comments, criticisms, suggestions for improvement, etc, welcome as ever.

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[IDG] Nov 26 2007 - Nice - unlike the version that comes with Suse Linux which is unplayable.
However SystemButtonFace is an unknown colour under Linux, so I had to change this before statistics would display.

[MG] Thanks; I'd only tried it on Windows. I've updated that now to use
  $toplevel cget -background
to get the correct background colour, which should work on all platforms, I think.
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[IDG] Nov. 27 - I think there are some bugs in the statistics code, by the way. I managed to get a negative number of games lost at one point ...

[MG] I've not seen that problem, but I'll take a look at the code and see if I can see what might be causing it.
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Steven [http://tkgames.sf.net] Dec 14 - I like the way the undo feature works... When did you write this game ?
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> Total:

> Played: 5
> Won:    0
> Lost:   5
> Current Streak: 1 loss
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I thought that would mean my current streak was 5 loss ? Actually, i remember winning one game. I then selected i didn't want to play again, or something. There might be a little bug here somewhere.

.... Sometimes it clears a card to the pen, other times not. What are the criteria about clearing cards ?

[MG] It's the most recent cardgame I've written, but it's quite a while since I wrote it (many months, if not longer). It's quite possible there are some bugs - I had a quick look to see if I could spot the one IDG mentioned, but couldn't see anything obvious, and haven't had the time to delve deeper.

It should clear a card to the top whenever it's of no use (so, for instance, if you have both red 4s up already, it'll put black fives up automatically). I have a version that doesn't put the cards up automatically, but there's no gui-option for it yet, you have to edit a var in the code to turn it on. I'll try and get that cleaned up and posted soon, though.

Steven [http://tkgames.sf.net] Dec 15. I guess it's possible the bug i noticed is from running multiple instances of the game, but in Tktk i keep game tallys and i had to keep the code fairly tight.
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