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i cant believe i betrayed myself in looking at this thread, why would i do this to me, coda why have you enabled this

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I have enabled this specifically because I wanted to enable this. Why else would I create a thing?

Small update.

New feature: Ambiguous solution hints. In free mode, if you've turned the whole board green but it doesn't match the intended solution, the hints will turn red to indicate what needs fixed.

New feature: Touch-mode measurements. With the mouse you can see how long a line is by hovering over it, but you can't do that with touch. Now, the measurement numbers will remain on the screen after you release a touch, making it usable in touch mode as well. (Try tapping an existing line!)

Also fixed some bugs pertaining to the undo functionality and some formatting issues with hovering.

Hrm, mobile still doesn’t work for me. Might be something wonky on my end.

What do you mean by "doesn't work"? Details, man, details! XD Also what device and what browser?

Next feature I'm going to implement is custom boards instead of seeded ones. This is a prerequisite for what I was ORIGINALLY wanting to do when I started on this project: create a generator that can convert image files into interesting nonograms.

This is harder than it sounds. It's trivially easy with a black-and-white image, but you don't want to just convert an image to 1-bit color because that loses most of the detail in the image and probably isn't going to make an interesting pattern. You can play around with brightness and contrast filters and get a little bit better, but that's still not going to make a puzzle that's anywhere close to what a hand-crafted grid would be like.

But I've got plans. I'm not 100% sure they're all going to work, and I'm not sure I necessarily even know how to do everything I have in mind. But that's what makes being a programmer fun! I get to solve puzzles in order to make puzzles!

iOS, Safari; tapping a square only hovers and doesn’t actually click

I should have guessed. That's the one configuration that's a particular pain in the butt for me to evaluate.

I'll see about getting some suitable development tools up and running. I haven't needed them in over a year, so this computer doesn't have them.

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Initially infuriating bc I'm out of practice. Had to jump all around the board to figure this one out.

20 x 20 827767351

Pretty easy, took about... ten minutes?

I was kinda out of practice at this, too. I've only been playing 15x15's recently, and without support for X, so my strategies were a bit inefficient until I remembered how I used to do it.

Yeah, I see what you mean by easy.