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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:24:29 GMT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ I&#039;ve decided to spend little spare time behind my PC, hence that I hardly ever visit BS anymore. Also because I work fulltime in the holiday now, don&#039;t expect this project to be finished any time soon.

I&#039;ve desided to create a Sudoku game, because this kind of puzles seem to be highly populair. I&#039;ve planned the following features:

1. Users can create puzzles them selves
2. Save/Load game
3. The computer should be able to show illegal entries

- The computer should be able to give hints
- The computer should be able to salve the game
- The Sudoku salver algorithm should be saved in a separate file, so that it can be easilly upgraded.
- The computer should be able to create a salvable game.

Depending on how long I care for this project, I&#039;m going to work on the numbered list from top to bottom.  The dashed list I&#039;m not 100% sure about the order yet, because they all have to do with each other. 

Ok, so here&#039;s what I&#039;ve done up till now:

I&#039;ve created a GUI (oh wow, show me!):

(the puzzle in the image is salvable)

At the moment you are able to enter anything into the text fields. Maybe in the future this will be filtered to a number between 1 and 9. But maybe I won&#039;t do that, because being able to fill in anything, might help one to find a solution...

The values in this screenshot where filled by hand, so as you see point 1 of the feature list has been done. The game is cleared, when the user clicks &quot;create game&quot; from the menu.

Also I&#039;m able to save and load the game already, but I&#039;m not sure yet if I&#039;ll stick with the current file structure. Maybe I want certain other features into the level files.

I&#039;m currently thinking about being able to store the solution in the same file, without showing it on screen when loaded. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jul 2006 18:14:11 GMT</pubDate>
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