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!JigWord, V1.60, 1991, written by P.Bentley
(C) Archimedes World 1992
!JigWord is a word puzzle creation program, ie. it creates a jigword. What's one of them, I hear you ask, (perhaps). It's like a crossword with no clues, just a grid and a list of words. To see one, load !JigWord, click on it's icon, and the JigWord creation window should pop up. Enter the width as 30, the height as 15, enable start word, and click on create. The hourglass will pop up, and after about 3 seconds, a !JigWord window will appear within a !JigWord display window.
Menu options from the JigWord display window are fairly self-explanatory. 'Info' gives information about the current JigWord; 'Cheat' fills in all the words for you (but deselecting cheat by clicking on it again, restores you to the state in which you left it in); 'Words' displays the words window (more about that later); and, 'New View' gives you a new view of the same JigWord, which can be useful for solving BIG JigWords.
By clicking on 'Words', !JigWord displays a list of words of a certain length, all of which have a specified place in the puzzle. To see different word lengths, use the arrow icons. The only current menu option is 'New View', which will give you a new view of the words window, so you can display the 3 letter word list at the same time as the list for 12 letter words (etc. etc.).
To put a word into a space, first select it with the pointer (Select or Adjust) and it will be highlighted in red (if you want to change the colour, I might shove a variable into PROCInitSomethingOrOther), and then select the word from the list. If it's not the right length, the computer will ignore it, if it's the right length but doesn't coincide with letters already in, the computer will beep. When you select a space in which two words can fit (ie. one vertical one and one horizantal one) both will be highlighted. If you now click on a word (in the word window), it will be put into the space the right length. If both spaces highlighted are the same length, the computer takes no action (not even a beep). If you have highlighted two spaces, and only want one, then just select the space wanted again in a different place. If you want to put a word into a space already occupied, just select another word and the old word will be swapped with the new one. If you wish to remove a word totally from a space without replacing it with a new one, find the word occupying the space in the word-list, and click adjust over it.
Several puzzles can be active at once (currently 11), but it can only create one at a time. The create facility may, in future versions (V1.70+) create in the background, but still only one puzzle at a time. If I do create such aprogram, I'll send the add-on module to Archimedes World.
The creation window allows various sizes to be created, the minimum is 30*15 the maximum is 99*99. 30*15 is a nice size, useful for demonstrating as it only takes about 3 seconds to create, but for a proper challenge, you should try 62*23. This takes about 30 seconds to create, but can be quite difficult.If you're in mode 12 (or one of its siblings), clicking the full size icon will display the whole puzzle at once. If you're in mode 16, you'll be able to see all the puzzle all the time and have a few word list on the other sideof the screen. The reason why it's fairly slow is that the algorithm was designed not to use up mega-bytes of memory, ie. if you just used a 100*100 matrix to create in, that would take up about 10k of memory, if you wanted the theoretical full size (256*256) it would take up about 64K. The current algorithm uses just a word-space list to keep memory requirements to a minimum. Creating the maximum size of 99*99 is tantamount to raytracing a T1000 Terminator or get a small band of monkeys to rewrite Macbeth. It takes forever (well, about 15 minutes actually.)
The current dictionary was supplied to me by a friend known as Al'. It has about 5000 words, the problem is, is that it only has about 4 words over 14 letters in length. This is because Al' doesn't know many long words (he only got a C in English language GCSE!)
The print option was the last to be added, because my CPA-80+ doesn't do a very good impression of an Epson FX. So I had to keep borrowing an LC-10.
There are two print options, one from the word list menu, which prints out just the word list, and doesn't need a printer driver. The other from a JigWord menu, which needs a printer driver and prints the chosen JigWord to the selected printer. Using the Star LC-10, I had to use high-res printing, as with low and medium res, the resolution was so low that it kept missing lines out. This could probably be cured somehow, but I'm not sure how. The maximum size that can be printed out is 69*27, anything bigger gets clipped (on 'A4ish' paper). This could be cured by changing the transform matrix used(near the end of the program) or getting a bigger printer. When printing a JigWord, if you have words in the grid, they too will be output. To make themlook better, use SysFont from a previous archimedes world (a few months back)to change the font to thin.
To change the hi-lite colour, there's now a variable in PROCInitialise calledHiLiteCol (I think), it's currently set to eleven (red) but yellow (9) looks better.
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The | 00000ac0 63 72 65 61 74 65 20 66 61 63 69 6c 69 74 79 20 |create facility | 00000ad0 6d 61 79 2c 20 69 6e 20 66 75 74 75 72 65 20 76 |may, in future v| 00000ae0 65 72 73 69 6f 6e 73 20 28 56 31 2e 37 30 2b 29 |ersions (V1.70+)| 00000af0 20 63 72 65 61 74 65 20 20 20 69 6e 20 74 68 65 | create in the| 00000b00 20 62 61 63 6b 67 72 6f 75 6e 64 2c 20 62 75 74 | background, but| 00000b10 20 73 74 69 6c 6c 20 6f 6e 6c 79 20 6f 6e 65 20 | still only one | 00000b20 70 75 7a 7a 6c 65 20 61 74 20 61 20 74 69 6d 65 |puzzle at a time| 00000b30 2e 20 49 66 20 49 20 64 6f 20 63 72 65 61 74 65 |. 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This takes a| 00000c80 62 6f 75 74 20 33 30 20 73 65 63 6f 6e 64 73 20 |bout 30 seconds | 00000c90 74 6f 20 63 72 65 61 74 65 2c 20 62 75 74 20 63 |to create, but c| 00000ca0 61 6e 20 62 65 20 71 75 69 74 65 20 64 69 66 66 |an be quite diff| 00000cb0 69 63 75 6c 74 2e 49 66 20 79 6f 75 27 72 65 20 |icult.If you're | 00000cc0 69 6e 20 6d 6f 64 65 20 31 32 20 28 6f 72 20 6f |in mode 12 (or o| 00000cd0 6e 65 20 6f 66 20 69 74 73 20 73 69 62 6c 69 6e |ne of its siblin| 00000ce0 67 73 29 2c 20 63 6c 69 63 6b 69 6e 67 20 74 68 |gs), clicking th| 00000cf0 65 20 66 75 6c 6c 20 73 69 7a 65 20 69 63 6f 6e |e full size icon| 00000d00 20 20 20 77 69 6c 6c 20 64 69 73 70 6c 61 79 20 | will display | 00000d10 74 68 65 20 77 68 6f 6c 65 20 70 75 7a 7a 6c 65 |the whole puzzle| 00000d20 20 61 74 20 6f 6e 63 65 2e 20 49 66 20 79 6f 75 | at once. If you| 00000d30 27 72 65 20 69 6e 20 6d 6f 64 65 20 31 36 2c 20 |'re in mode 16, | 00000d40 79 6f 75 27 6c 6c 20 62 65 20 61 62 6c 65 20 20 |you'll be able | 00000d50 74 6f 20 73 65 65 20 61 6c 6c 20 74 68 65 20 70 |to see all the p| 00000d60 75 7a 7a 6c 65 20 61 6c 6c 20 74 68 65 20 74 69 |uzzle all the ti| 00000d70 6d 65 20 61 6e 64 20 68 61 76 65 20 61 20 66 65 |me and have a fe| 00000d80 77 20 77 6f 72 64 20 6c 69 73 74 20 6f 6e 20 74 |w word list on t| 00000d90 68 65 20 6f 74 68 65 72 20 73 69 64 65 6f 66 20 |he other sideof | 00000da0 74 68 65 20 73 63 72 65 65 6e 2e 20 54 68 65 20 |the screen. 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