[DNO] Display of Moves - Question

When &method=display is set how detailed shuld the moves be represented..

Eg: Currently I have this :
1 : Shows what tile-group is removed
2 : How the board looks after its colapse

Shuld It display both how it look after a colapse down, and then after the colapse right.
Or is it enough to display only the final colapse?

Just wondering, still working on the display method, and may include both later...

Hope this won't be looked at as a compleatly stupid question, but I just want to be 100% shure.

Not an official answer by any means...

But, I imagine a sufficient way to oupt would be in <PRE> tags the board after each successive move.

Like:
11133
22233
11133
33333
33333
-----
00000
00000
00111
00222
00111
-----
00000
00000
00000
00111
00111
-----
done. score = 301 moves = 3

As long as I can follow the progression of moves it will be fine. Just showing after the full collapse is no problem..

I will try many different heuristics and keep the better scor of them. Do i have to display the steps of every heuristic i tried or just (all the steps) of the winning one?

Oh, and something more. I decided to add a bgcolor to each cell of the table but i am not very good in color combinations. Could someone post 8 html codes that work well together visually? Or 4-5 and i will find something for the rest.

I use these:

#ff0000
#00ff00
#0000ff
#ffff00
#ff00ff
#00ffff
#ff8080
#80ff80

8 colors is anyway painfull to look at, and please don't use bgcolor, use css ;)

I think i found a good combination. Take a look here :

http://www.dpgr.gr/fractalbit/sample.html

The colors used are :

#669966
#ffff99
#ff0033
#336666
#ff6600
#663366
#cccc66
#FFA500

Looks nice, except when your color-blind.
I like bright colors more; makes me feel like it's Christmas

Yes, i know, but 8 bright colors, can make you color-blind. hehe

Just the winning one...

Here is my 8-color combination. I have selected them looking for max contrast. I let black for the foreground and white for empty spaces...

#FF0000 // red
#00FF00 // green
#0000FF // blue
#FFFF00 // yellow
#00FFFF // cyan
#FF00FF // magenta
#FFAA00 // orange
#7F7F7F // 50% gray

Ok, here are mine:

#FF0000
#00FF00
#0000FF
#FF00FF
#FFFF00
#00FFFF
#FF8040
#008080

(I spent some time chosing the 2 last colors).
I also use a grey #808080 color for empty tiles.

JC

Is there allowed to use additional $_GET vars in the url when &method=display method is used ??

These aditional vars is intended for the display of moves functions.

I had problems whit the browser crashing on sertain criterias, and want the viewer to be able to override the changing of method whit thise vars.

Hmmm, i was thinking something similar. When i use method=display on very large boards (ex. 50x50x3) the browser crashes. I believe it's ok to use aditional vars if you also implement the basics. For example i think using an aditional $last=X variable that will display only the last X moves of the collapsing.

As long as I can call the script with what is in the rules, that is fine. If your script then loads more pages, I have no problem with it.