What's New - September 2004
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September 29,2004: Month-ends provide motivation to get "just one more" program posted. During the hurricane weather this past week I worked on a Print Preview capability to add to last week's Crossword generator. The preview part along with a demo program was posted today over in Delphi-Techniques section. of DFF. It previews and prints text and StringGrids, the two types of output needed to print puzzles. It can also save previewed images in a file for later re-printing. Now, if we just get a rainy day this week, I'll have time to add the preview capability to Crossword Generator. Otherwise it's back to gathering the winter's supply of firewood.
September 21, 2004:
Here's an improved version of our Crossword
Generator program. A kindred spirit programmer, Charles
Doumar, added a WordSearch puzzle generator which prompted
me to make the Crossword puzzles into actual solvable
puzzles (numbered the words and added a clues
capability). Either puzzle type may now be printed for
use in classrooms, for example. Clues are contained in the user specified word list files. I have included a
few sample topical word files as starters (Birds illustrated
here). Check it out! If you develop any wordlists and
want to share, send them on and I'll add them to the
distribution.
September 8, 2004:
The Scrolling LEDs program now has the ability to embed current date/time and a countdown timer in the scrolling text message. Prompted by a fellow teaching English in China who sounds like he is counting the days (and hours and minutes) until his "tour of duty" is up.