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paulv66
Posted on: Thu Dec 06, 2018 7:13 pm
Posts: 958 Location: Ukraine Joined: Tue Mar 01, 2016 10:03 pm
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Cells turning green when using pencil
For some reason, a green tick has started appearing on the pencil key when I click and the feel in which I'm entering numbers turns bright green. Is this a general change, or have I unknowingly changed my settings in some way?
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pnm
Posted on: Thu Dec 06, 2018 7:48 pm
Posts: 3301 Joined: Thu May 12, 2011 11:58 pm
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Re: Cells turning green when using pencil
paulv66 wrote: For some reason, a green tick has started appearing on the pencil key when I click This used to be a black tick, and was changed to a green tick. Also, the "green cursor" is meant to signal "pencil mode" (probably should think of something else to make it not so similar to a bolded number). There is still a "logic issue" related to the use of shift for entering guesses: releasing the shift key disables "pencil mode", even if it was enabled earlier using the pencil icon..
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paulv66
Posted on: Thu Dec 06, 2018 9:07 pm
Posts: 958 Location: Ukraine Joined: Tue Mar 01, 2016 10:03 pm
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Re: Cells turning green when using pencil
Thanks Patrick. This must be a fairly recent change as today was the first time I've seen it.
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pnm
Posted on: Thu Dec 06, 2018 9:12 pm
Posts: 3301 Joined: Thu May 12, 2011 11:58 pm
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Re: Cells turning green when using pencil
paulv66 wrote: Thanks Patrick. This must be a fairly recent change as today was the first time I've seen it. Yup. User bach18 suggested this about a month ago, only got round to looking at it today.. edit: the logic should be better now. I also noticed that the "pencil toggle" did not apply to digits entered using the keyboard (!) (not very consistent). That should be fixed now too. The code for processing key presses is getting to be pretty convoluted, I'm praying there are no more bugs
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jaek
Posted on: Thu Dec 06, 2018 10:47 pm
Posts: 300 Joined: Fri Jun 17, 2011 8:15 pm
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Re: Cells turning green when using pencil
pnm wrote: There is still a "logic issue" related to the use of shift for entering guesses: releasing the shift key disables "pencil mode", even if it was enabled earlier using the pencil icon.. Also, the crtl key for penciling negative numbers doesn't invoke the green cell highlight.
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pnm
Posted on: Thu Dec 06, 2018 10:52 pm
Posts: 3301 Joined: Thu May 12, 2011 11:58 pm
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Re: Cells turning green when using pencil
jaek wrote: Also, the crtl key for penciling negative numbers doesn't invoke the green cell highlight. You win the prize for finding the first bug (well not really a bug, more of an "issue")
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eclipsegirl
Posted on: Thu Dec 06, 2018 11:46 pm
Posts: 692 Joined: Wed Apr 16, 2014 9:20 pm
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Re: Cells turning green when using pencil
Patrick, I use an iPad Pro. I never wanted the keyboard to be pencil when pencil was triggered, I loved the ability to enter a Known number and enter pencil marks at the same time. Now I have to turn on and offf the pencil to work a puzzles and it takes more time. This is going to solve me down on the the timed puzzles.
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pnm
Posted on: Thu Dec 06, 2018 11:52 pm
Posts: 3301 Joined: Thu May 12, 2011 11:58 pm
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Re: Cells turning green when using pencil
eclipsegirl wrote: Patrick, I use an iPad Pro.
I never wanted the keyboard to be pencil when pencil was triggered, I loved the ability to enter a Known number and enter pencil marks at the same time. Now I have to turn on and offf the pencil to work a puzzles and it takes more time.
Ah, interesting. For any change there's someone not happy with it I do think it's better for consistency. Maybe I should make it an option. And maybe the "stronger" green should be for a bolded number, and the "weaker" green for the guesses (or a different colour altogether)
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beaker
Posted on: Thu Dec 06, 2018 11:53 pm
Posts: 931 Location: Ladysmith, BC, Canada Joined: Fri May 13, 2011 1:37 am
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Re: Cells turning green when using pencil
"solve me down" or slow me down ? Nice to see a post from you again "
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eclipsegirl
Posted on: Fri Dec 07, 2018 12:24 am
Posts: 692 Joined: Wed Apr 16, 2014 9:20 pm
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Re: Cells turning green when using pencil
The fact that I broke my silence should show Patrick how unhappy I am :wink:
I used to get in the top 25 of the 8 x 8 timed a few times a week. This change may affect that.
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