Thread: [Announce] xword - Across Lite compatible crossword program
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2008-08-03 , 05:38
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Originally Posted by terrencegf View Post
And just to be clear, partially solved puzzles are not saved to the original files. The original .puz file never gets modified. Instead, a partially solved puzzle is saved to a special binary file in the "/home/user/.crossword_puzzles" directory. Basically, just your answers are saved.
That's pretty slick. And I see that opened .puz files are automatically saved under their original names, so the user (once he understands that) doesn't need to worry about saving anything.

Originally Posted by terrencegf View Post
As stated on the bugs section of the project page, xword can't deal with "locked" puzzles. I don't know the encryption method for those puzzles and thus I can't write a decoding routine. Sorry.
But the puzzle can effectively be unlocked. That is very smooth.

The documentation says "When an unlocked version of the puzzle comes out, you can continue your partially filled-in puzzle ...". It might be clearer to say "When an unlocked version of the puzzle comes out, you can open that unlocked version in xword. Your filled-in answers will be there just as before, but now you can use the "check/solve" functions."

I would suggest that if the puzzle is locked, you gray out the Check and Solve menu items rather than producing gibberish. (Especially since the XXX's from doing a Check on a locked puzzle are not removed when the Check is done again on the unlocked version.)