August 2003 - Posts

Ctrl-I (Incremental Search) and the importance of sliced bread

Of all the keystrokes and combinations in VS.NET, the one I find myself using the most is Ctrl-I for the incremental search. So much so that I find myself using it in most other editing programs (It does nothing in Notepad, but it brings up the Index Tuner in SQL Query Analyzer)

It would be wonderful if MS would propagate keystrokes like that around to other editors.

Posted Monday, August 11, 2003 11:43 AM by szurgot | 4 comment(s)
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Solitare game

With the interest in recent releases of Reversi and Tetris in .NET (Wait, didn't somebody names Chris Sells realease a game called “Wahoo” a while back?) I'm releasing my somewhat unfinished solitare program. The main unfinished portions are the graphics (it's 100% C# and GDI+ really isn't made for dragging images like this program does) and a “AutoPlay” capability where it would try to play through the game to determine a winning solution (for the purpose of statistical analysis and hints. You can see the commented out code peppering the program) Neither of these affects gameplay in any way.

The program is a framework for designing solitare games, and as such has five built in variants with the ability for more.

Current variants are:

  1. Klondike (1 Draw or 3 Draw) Pretty much what you get in Windows, but I wanted to build it.
  2. Yukon. A variant of Klodike where all cards are laid out on the tableau before play instead of in a pile.
  3. Storehouse. Canfield variant. Build down in suite on the Tableau cards, and up in suite on the foundation.
  4. Thirteens. Choose 2 cards equaling 13 or one King to be drawn to the discard.

You can get it here. Solitare

As an aside, .Text is great!

Posted Thursday, August 07, 2003 12:38 PM by szurgot | 5 comment(s)
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