From kde-edu-devel Thu Aug 15 23:39:30 2002 From: Jason Lane Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 23:39:30 +0000 To: kde-edu-devel Subject: Re: [kde-edu-devel] Fwd: puzzled students. X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-edu-devel&m=102979660429674 Hi, What a coincidence! I've actually just (last week) started writing a=20 wordsearch puzzle maker one as my first attempt at a complete KDE/Qt/c++ ap= p.=20 I want it capable of creating nice looking puzzles that can be used as=20 worksheets or static web pages, with the ability to save puzzles, import=20 wordlists, and print the solutions of course. Eventually, perhaps even a=20 KWord export facility and an interactive game mode - but let's not run befo= re=20 we can crawl...:-).=20 At present I have a basic UI, but it's not yet connected to the Qt-centric= =20 puzzle generation code. Maybe in a week or two when I can get the time.... I was going to announce it here when I had a usable app, and offer it as a= =20 part of kde-edu. The heart of the puzzle generation algorithm code is based on the little c+= +=20 program by Steve Baker at http://www.sjbaker.org/steve/toys/ (it's GPL) but= =20 totally rewritten to take into account Qt's QChar and QString and other=20 facilities provided by Qt. This algorithm I found led to better distributed= =20 word grids than several non-free Windows programs (freeware & shareware &=20 commercial) that I tried a while ago when attempting to create a Christmas= =20 puzzle last year. Oh, the working title is "Kwordsearch"... for lack of anything more origina= l. More info soon, if anyone's interested... Regards, Jason On Thursday 15 August 2002 10:41 pm, Chris Howells wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > - ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- > > Subject: puzzled students. > Date: Saturday 27 July 2002 3:03 pm > From: anthonybaldwin > To: webmaster@edu.kde.org > > I was just thinking of some other useful possibilities for the > KDEdutainment Project: > A wordsearch puzzle generator! very useful. > I found one that I used last year here: http://www.adders.org that runs > in windows and marginally with the use of Wine. The program is free and > the gentleman who wrote it would be willing to share code, I am nearly > certain. ( The same guy wrote a nice little hangman game that runs in > windows. I have never been able to get KHangman up and running for > missingl libs that I can not find.) _______________________________________________ kde-edu-devel mailing list kde-edu-devel@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-edu-devel