Version 21 of Jigsaw Puzzler

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.

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...

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.

LES: This game works for me in Windows, but I can't save or load puzzles in Linux. Whenever I try, I get this message:

 Error in constructor:
 "::jigsaw-play::cfg1 configurelist" is not defined

DPE 21 Feb 2005 I've tested this under Windows and HPUX 11.11 using tclkit 8.4.9 and do not see a problem. I don't currently have a Linux machine to test against. The error message sounds like an error in my cfg package or snit. Which version of tclkit are you using?

LES I don't run it with Tclkit. I run with ActiveTcl 8.4.9.

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... ;^)

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