Re: FLASH: time estimate (repost)

[Laura Mollett]

> Laura,

> 

> The crossword puzzle isn't that hard really, mine isn't customizable and I

> don't have a tutorial for it atm, but it just involved a lot of tell

> targetting...

>

> jb


Hi jb,


Well I'm no coder, that's for sure :) I guess it was in 'customizable' where

I thought it was kind of tricky. What I'm working on is cryptograms

(specifically cryptoquizzes), not crosswords, and I wanted to have a long

list of different ones (and way to change 'em out easy) so you can play lots

of times, not just once. I wanted mine to work so that you type the guessed

letter actually in the space where or above the encrypted one (like in a

cryptogram you'd get in a magazine) and not choose from an alphabet set at

the bottom (like I've seen some done) - so that's a design decision, but

where it gets complicated is that the words can have different numbers of

letters, and the game has to know how many blanks to fill in and blank text

boxes... er, it's been a bit since I worked on this and I can't remember now

why I didn't just create a text box mc and duplicate it but there was a

reason :) (This, and a similar hangman/wheel of fortune-type game is where I

was having trouble with the newlines that Helen said worked for her, but I

haven't had a chance to try them yet, so maybe I'm confusing all the

problems too)... *anyways* it'd be different for a single crossword puzzle

where you always know the length of the answer field.


Laura


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