Mark,
That's the part I cheated at. What I did was since the script was very
fast in generating I waited until it was done and then checked for
doubles, if there was a double then I just had it start over. I have
seen it start over once but most times with my random choices it works
on the first try. If I were to finalize this game I would fix that
part.
I was in a hurry then because I had to create nine games in under a
week to coincide with my rebuild of the MM Director project in Rev. It
is a prototype of my designs for a UI with icons for pda's and phones.
I did create three text based trivia type games and four moving tiles
based games and the one crossicons game.
I would post the whole project if I could get permission. Right now the
company got the funding and we are waiting for the lawyers to finish.
I will post a link once I have the permission. It isn't complete but
does work enough to prototype and is very complicated.
P.S. To get a better random of a list I sort the lines by random the
number of lines and then filter what was left over into a temp variable
then do the next few randoms on the new list etc. But not too far
because the list gets smaller over time then I do a new random sort of
the num of lines over again.
Random is not very random and usually requires a random of the random
and then random again to make sure it is random enough.
Random,
Tom
On Jul 28, 2005, at 4:04 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
Tom-
I made an iconic crossword generator that uses icons in sequences
instead letters in sequences (as words). The icon sequences
'represent'
words and phrases. Is that close enough???
I did a few error checking things to see if the last icon of line 1 is
the first icon of line 2 or if the second icon of down 5 is the last
icon in 6 across etc. I did cheat though because if there were not
enough words to create it then I just had the thing try a whole new
generation instead of rearranging the ones I had. Also, I then had to
error check to make sure the same sequence was not used twice etc.
That sounds very interesting. Have you posted this somewhere? How are
you
ensuring the same sequence hasn't already been used?
--
Mark Wieder
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