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Android port of Simon Tatham's Puzzles
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Latin puzzles: pencil marks improvements #260

Open chrisboyle opened 9 years ago

chrisboyle commented 9 years ago

Requested by Reggie:

When entering in the number, it would be great if the pencil marks updated the connected cells so that all cells with that same number on the row or column no longer have that same number. This takes away the tedium of deleting it manually.

I think that request as written is too limiting against letting people use the pencil marks in a variety of different ways (which is an explicit design goal as mentioned in the docs).

and:

The pencil marks are in a 3x3 grid when dealing with 9 digits. When one digit is removed, the pencil marks adjust filing in the space. This makes it difficult to see what digit is missing. For example, if there is only one cell in the row that has a 6, it is much easier to spot if the other cells have a blank space in the sixth position in their pencil mark grid. Mathdoku is an example of what I mean.

chrisboyle commented 6 years ago

Renato Golin writes:

It would be nice if, on keen, the pencil marks were aligned to the bottom so that the existence of multiplyer or not doesn't misalign them. It makes it harder to match visually, especially with a lot of marks.

Another idea that would perhaps be harder is to always have the same marks in the same places and insert spaces to pad them. This may be hard with varying number of options and text fields...