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  • Unfixed bugs in Scrabble3D application.Datum07.08.2020 18:30

    Scotty: Just a quick clarification about Scrabble3D application. I have never played with this set up successfully before because it always only had failed before.
    In the letter set for English Scrabble, is it possible to define a letter distribution such that some of the tiles have different points from other tiles of the same letter? This is done to introduce even more fun into the game. For example, in 1000 tile set points for E can range between 1 and 9, while that for Q can range between 6 and 9. Something like this:

    I tried using multiple rows for the same letter in the letter set. But such an approach hangs the Scrabble3D application during the computer's turn (or does it think for too much of time to make a move even for small board size and small letter set, for example, 9×9 board with 50 tiles)? Do you have any ideas how to fix it? Can you try it what happens to you in your own system?
    It seems that this type of approach is only suitable for play against other human players and not against computer opponent players.

    A different approach which would work out in my opinion is to have different symbols in the replace function for E₁, E₂, E₃, E₄, E₅, E₆, E₇, E₈ and E₉.
    But that would mean upto n⁹ different words in the dictionary for a n-letter word.

    If human players have any knowledge or idea about how turn sequence, randoms (random tiles if there are defined in the letter set in the configuration settings of the Scrabble3D application) and rack tiles are picked up based upon from the random seed, then they can set up a saved game file and load it (may be that initially all of player's racks can be filled up with all consonants such that no move can be played and they all have to be compulsorily swapped during the first round of all players by themselves).
    But even if such a saved game file is loaded, in the letter set in the configuration settings of the Scrabble3D application, only 1 single row for a specific letter is displayed and shown. For a new game to be started to be played with such configuration settings to generate up with a random seed for the new game to be started to be played automatically.

  • Thema von Raman im Forum General

    Ronald Credo is a Scrabble player from Dubai, UAE participating in any international Scrabble tournaments and emerging out as an international Scrabble champion player. I have played with several games with him in Wordsmith, Wordsmith Tournament and Wordpox in 2014 and 2018 respectively. His user ID in all of those above Scrabble apps is tiger2002. Note that while all those Scrabble apps have 15×15 board and 100 tiles in common, letter distribution, board layout and points of each tile may change. For more information about all of those types of Scrabble apps, please visit http://tiger2002crossword.blogspot.com/.

    His profile website page:
    https://www.blogger.com/profile/09162062421951815885

    Spot the best play puzzles: http://tiger2002crossword.blogspot.com/2...k-jun-6-12.html
    Endgame strategy discussions:
    Analytical endgame:
    Endgame set up for a come from behind victory: http://tiger2002crossword.blogspot.com/2...me-of-week.html
    Hack the Q in the endgame: http://tiger2002crossword.blogspot.com/2...in-endgame.html
    Pre-endgame tactics:
    Reversal of Fortune: http://tiger2002crossword.blogspot.com/2...-of-week_6.html
    Stealing victory from the jaws of defeat:
    Law of probability against kinglee: http://tiger2002crossword.blogspot.com/2...us-kinglee.html

    Sample Scrabble played game in Polish (2015) in WebFeud mobile app http://www.webfeud.com/:

    Sample Scrabble played game in Romanian (2015) in WebFeud mobile app http://www.webfeud.com/:

    Sample Scrabble played game in Finnish (2015) in WebFeud mobile app http://www.webfeud.com/:

    Sample Scrabble played game in Russian (2020) in WebFeud mobile app http://www.webfeud.com/:

    Sample Scrabble played game in Greek (2020) in WebFeud mobile app http://www.webfeud.com/:

    I can play in all languages by making use of helper tools, although that I have written my own helper tool of mine by making use of a python script as a computer program in Tamil, maths equations, squares, triangular numbers, cubes, English phonetic, Tamil phonetic, etc.
    Without use of any helper tools, I can play to not at an expert level in my own native languages, which are those that include upto English, Tamil, English phonetic, Tamil phonetic, maths equations, Roman numerals, etc. And Roman numerals is open to everyone in the world and everyone can easily play to expert level without the aid of any of types of helper tools. I can make use of dictionaries that come along with Scrabble3D application (that are uploaded and available in sourceforge website page for downloading in Scrabble3D application) for helper tools as long as they are not protected by making use of their own authors.|addpics|ubb-4g-0a0e.png-invaddpicsinvv,ubb-4h-dc8e.png-invaddpicsinvv,ubb-4i-e263.png-invaddpicsinvv,ubb-4j-7a05.png-invaddpicsinvv,ubb-4k-f4fa.png-invaddpicsinvv|/addpics|

  • Tamil ScrabbleDatum07.08.2020 16:20
    Foren-Beitrag von Raman im Thema Tamil Scrabble

    Not mine:

    Times of India article about Sorkalam, on Monday 27 July 2020.
    https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city...ow/77187987.cms


    The Hindu article about Sorkalam, on Saturday 1 August 2020.
    https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/t...cle32247463.ece

    My own humble opinion just simply about Sorkalam played game, for people whoever would be interested to read this forum post of mine, if they would find this thread of mine in this forum through Google Search Engine about Tamil Scrabble:

    Most people would psychologically prefer playing with wooden tiles for Scrabble, instead of board and tiles printed on chart paper, pasted with gum on front side and back side of cardboard and cut with scissors even if they can be made for themselves cheap with their own board layout, letter distribution and making extra tiles for ensuring different tile distribution in each game if some small amount of tiles picked up at the beginning of the game to play from a big pool.
    Wooden rack, board and tiles for any language, or any letter set including maths equations, English phonetic, Tamil phonetic, perfect squares, triangular numbers, Roman numerals, etc. can be ordered from Ahaa Furniture Store in Bangalore, India, https://www.ahaa.in/ which is owned by Abhijit Shilotri, a member of Karnataka State Scrabble Association (Bangalore Scrabble Club). I am not sure how much it will cost for set of 100 tiles. Shop owner has to be enquired about that.

    Also that most people would psychologically prefer playing with computer programs such as those like Scrabble3D application if the user interface is good enough, isn't it? With computer (that is actually always available only offline and never online) or other human players (that is actually always available either offline or online).

    In Scrabble3D application, I have created the version of Tamil dictionary that can be best played with it, which is more readable and given that number of tiles can be rack can be set to any number ≤ 20. It can be also increased ≥ 21 easily by editing the source code and compiling Scrabble3D application from that, but crash occurred during computer's turn from my own modified and compiled version of Scrabble3D application.
    Here are some alternate designs to Tamil Scrabble that would be more better to play but not supported by Scrabble3D application:

    (a) In my 2014 make of Tamil Scrabble with board and tiles printed on chart paper, pasted with gum on front side and back side of cardboard and cut with scissors, front side or back side can be chosen for each tile. This is a player's choice just like there would be choice in question paper especially in Tamil school exams. So in this way, a difficult letter need not be compulsorily played and it can be simply pushed with an easy letter on the back of it, and given that difficult letters are always only paired with easy letters on the back of it.
    First we tried with 10 tiles in rack and it did not form words so easily, so in later games we decided to pick up 50 tiles per person at the start of a game for the entire game randomly from the big pool. And push away tiles wisely as fewer and fewer number of tiles remain with each player. All these games were played always only with board layout of 21×21 Super Scrabble board, that I printed on chart paper to play it for cheap when I did not want to buy original English Super Scrabble set from abroad for so much money when I could also make my own desired letter distribution for it by myself, with different points for different tiles even for the same letter. This is an interesting setting currently only possible to play with other human players online and Scrabble3D application hangs during computer's turn offline under current setting as it does if digraphs are included in letter set without replace function and also in that case only the first letter is shown in the tiles.

    (b) This is the way how Tamil Scrabble would be good to be played, as designed by Sorkalam game designers R. Santhanakrishnan (kris_rs on Twitter) and his wife Preetha Raghavan:
    Tamil has 12 vowels, 18 consonants (plus 5 other Sanskrit consonants that are not part of core Tamil), 216 combos of consonants and vowels (plus 60 other from Sanskrit consonants that are not part of core Tamil) and 1 special character ஃ which is rarely used.
    For handling 216 letters which are combos of consonants and vowels, they keep separate wooden tiles for consonants, and transparent glass tiles for vowels which can be placed on top of them (not for 12 pure vowels in played games of Sorkalam at all, which are always printed and made only in wooden tiles).
    2 separate racks are maintained for wooden tiles (which would be 10 in number) and glass tiles (which would be 5 in number) for each player in any played game of Sorkalam. It is played in 17×17 board with 90 wooden tiles, 55 glass tiles and 20 blank tiles.
    Some of the letters are not used, for example, ழௌ ளௌ றௌ னௌ, some of the letters are seldom used, for example, ங வரிசை except ங், so is ஞ வரிசை except ஞ் ஞ ஞா. Tell Tamil words with ழீ ழூ? தமிழீழம் குழூஉ? With vowels at the middle of the words which would mostly and usually occur only at the start of the words?
    Anyway that in my version of Tamil dictionary in Scrabble3D application, I have separated vowel combos for ா ெ ே ை ௗ ஔ by creating separate tiles for them, and to provide more flexibility and space by forming longer words and to reduce too many number of Tamil letters in 2D or 3D Scrabble board which would be rarely used.

    My created version of English dictionary for Scrabble3D application or Tamil dictionary that is taken from Tamil Lexicon published by University of Madras after 3 days of processing work by me by making use of python script as a computer program would always include the meanings of each word in dictionary that would be displayed in Scrabble3D application whenever mouse hovers over any played word in Scrabble board in any played game, currently ongoing or one that has been saved and loaded.
    So for perfect squares and perfect cubes to tell the number what number's square or cube is that of, or for Roman numerals what number is that of, or for triangular numbers upto what number n from 1 if continuously summed is that number obtained of: instead of showing that as a binomial coefficient ⁿ⁺¹C₂ is shown instead of that.

    In my humble opinion, many aspects in design of Sorkalam game can be improved before trying in tournaments which might be several years later. Currently that their only aim is to bring them in on e-commerce platforms and there is not even PC app or mobile app for it right now:
    (1) There are no transparent tiles in Sorkalam for vowels u (ு) & oo (ூ) to combine with other consonants. Or they are not kept separate. I didn't see them in any photos of game.
    Their reply: How u(ு) & oo(ூ) sounding உயிர்மெய் are to be used in Sorkalam can be seen in the playing instructions. They are written on blank tiles instead of wood+seethru tile combo. This is bcos உயிர்மெய் like கு,கூ/து,தூ/பு,பூ need diff symbols to add on க/த/ப Vs just புள்ளி (க்/த்/ப்) or கொக்கி(கி/தி/பி).
    My humble opinion: ு & ூ can be used with these symbols on transparent tiles to give them same weightage as other combos.

    (2) Also Sanskrit letters ஸ, ஜ, ஷ, ஹ, க்ஷ, ஶ்ரீ & ஶ aren't properly handled that appear rarely in Tamil loanwords.
    Their reply: Wrto letters from Sanskrit - they aren't core Tamil so ignored. Of course, for Sorkalam gamers inclined to use such letters, blank tiles (of which there are 20) provide the flexibility for such needs. One blank tile per round per player is allowed.

    (3) I am not happy with 20 blank tiles. That is too much. Letter distribution of Scrabble set in all other western languages make use of exactly and only 2 blank tiles per 100 tiles of any played game.
    All Indian languages (Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi, Odia, Bengali, Gujarathi, Punjabi), Sinhala and Tibetian make use of Abugida writing system. 20 blank tiles means that wild plays with bingo words of greater length running from one premium word score to another premium word score would be possible during some given player's turn that might or might not be unfair enough to one or more other opponent players in same played game. That is based out of their own reply of theirs: One blank tile per round per player is allowed. Instead more tiles in the rack can be used, in my humble opinion, whether it is of either of the 2 rack sets that are maintained in the played game, that for wooden tiles or that for glass tiles.
    These types of things can be customized in Scrabble3D application: board size, board layout, number of tiles in rack ≤ 20, tile distribution, points for each letter and dictionary words and I have done the same type of things in all of types of my own played games of mine in the past 3½ months in Scrabble3D application, since whenever that I had started making use of Scrabble3D application ever to try out and play games of all of types of variants of Scrabble played games.

    Classic Scrabble is popular to most players in whatever language Scrabble is played while some other players like to play longer games with Super Scrabble also with more balance of tiles and number of turns to prove their vocabulary and caliber. Beyond that people would not be interested to play with larger boards and larger letter sets for them to become popular in any way. They take too much time to play to be patient and special boards have to be printed for each size and each board layout if not in computer and letters in tiles in computer are too small and computer opponent players take too much of time to play their turn if playing in computer such as those like Scrabble3D application depending upon size of dictionary, number of distinct letters in language alphabet and number of branches in trie data structure if it is to be built right from scratch for adding every subsequent letter of a formed word in any given specific language for playing in every board square along both 2 axes for 2D boards and for playing in every board cube along all 3 axes for 3D boards.
    For 3D boards, 15×15×15 board with 1000 tiles is the minimum size of cube Scrabble board and letter set that would be good enough to play, not anything less than that for size of cube Scrabble board and letter set. For 2D boards, instead of playing 1 game of 45×45 board with 1000 tiles, 10 games of 15×15 board with 100 tiles can be played in tournament games to give precise and balanced score to all players of played games at end of 10 played games to prove all player's vocabulary and caliber. Also that all 10 games of 15×15 board with 100 tiles would use base letter set and not precise and balanced scaling to 1000 tiles to represent precise frequency of each letter in that corresponding language dictionary. For Tamil Scrabble however, some letters would be dropped off every game if 10 games of 15×15 board with 1000 tiles are used, although that Scrabble3D application can make use of random tiles, that are totally random and should be minimally made use of and not reflecting precise frequency of each letter in the dictionary. In my opinion, reflection of precise frequency of each letter in the dictionary can be made manually by adding a specific letter in Scrabble3D application letter set in configuration settings multiple times but that would mean that Scrabble3D application would hang during computer's turn (that is actually always available only offline and never online). It might be only suitable for play with other human players (that is actually always available either offline or online).

    (4) My points for some tiles are higher to reward more points for playing difficult tiles, especially for 12 pure vowels which mostly occur only at the beginning of the words, but in some special cases, such as those like as they appear in poetry, they can also appear in the middle of some words which are actually also of special interest to all of types of Tamil Scrabble playing gamers.

    (5) All 12 pure vowels and 1 special Tamil letter ஃ which is rarely used are made use of exactly and only once in same 17×17 board without respecting the actual frequency of each of the 12 pure vowels in the Tamil dictionary which would amount to more than one tile for some of the Tamil letters and no tiles for some of the other Tamil letters. And exactly and only one tile it would amount to for the remainder of the Tamil letters which do not fall into both of types of the 2 categories that I have already mentioned above.
    In my humble opinion, it would be more fun enough to have different tile set each game in not necessarily 15×15 board each game, but of not necessarily different board size each game as it can be played each game in Scrabble3D application with customization each game in Scrabble3D application of board size, board layout, number of tiles in rack ≤ 20, tile distribution, points for each letter and dictionary words.

    It is a good enough thing that in Scrabble3D application, if a language dictionary can be exclusively and exhaustively produced, then if a word is not present in dictionary then it is not necessarily invalid.
    If playing against computer opponent players (that is actually always available only offline and never online), it asks only for human players for validation if it can be accepted or not and it will be accepted only if that human player agrees to it. Whenever playing against other human players (that is actually always available either offline or online), then it asks for all other human players by poll for validation if it can be accepted or not and it will be accepted only if all other human players agree to it. No need to add or remove valid or invalid words respectively from dictionary and to close and reload played game with the new dictionary settings. By the way, these changes would always only be personal and would not reflect to other human players making use of Scrabble3D application all over the world and that would reflect automatically when over specific interval of time or manually when checking for updates if the changes have been updated in sourceforge website page. You would only do updates to dictionaries in sourceforge website page if they are requested by their own authors, and not other people, although you do not have to depend upon the original authors of the dictionary to make with their own updates to the dictionary in the sourceforge website page. This does not apply for computer opponent players (that is actually always available only offline and never online) playing invalid words while other human players (that is actually always available either offline or online) will honestly never do it, and so it is only worthy enough and good enough to play against other human players than to play against computer opponent players.
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  • Discussions about forum donationsDatum07.08.2020 14:01
    Foren-Beitrag von Raman im Thema Discussions about forum donations

    I think that talking about Scrabble Stories and Word Puzzles would be relevant for this forum in General forum but I don't want to talk too much about Chess, Go, Carrom Board, Cluedo, Uno, etc. on this forum in Café forum as they are not related to Scrabble or Scrabble3D. I am not paid for the word or not any active users exist any more in this forum to read my posts in this forum anyway.
    I just said a word that I also made them by printing on chart paper, pasted with gum on cardboard and scissors to play with my family, friends and relatives not in computer similar to what I did for Scrabble. Also that it would not make any sense for me any more to develop any computer program for customizable Scrabble as it would be an overlap of work. Even if Scrabble3D application or playing in server were not free, I could buy them and instead make money for me by selling my own developed application of computer program for customizable Cluedo, Chess, Go, Uno, etc. But do remember that Scrabble and Cluedo are registered trademarks and it is necessary to pay some money to their intellectual property owners before attempting to sell to other people one's own developed piece of work, isn't it?

    And then some types of things to be made out of with in in to computer printout with in in to cardboard and then chart paper : -
    1. English language scrabble, English language upwords, Tamil language scrabble, Tamil language upwords, number equations scrabble, number equations upwords.
    2. Hot Death Uno cards.
    3. Cluedo or Clue : - enhanced with in in to 5 different categories : - Room, Person, Weapon, Time of Day, Day of Week, enhanced with in in to 5 different sizes : - Tiny, Small, Medium, Large, Massive.
    4. Scotland Yard with in in to my own city and then town.
    5. Learn different flags of different countries.
    6. Atom Mate Chemistry Trump Cards.
    7. You Bet Your Head Trivia Pack.
    8. My Own Question Bank.
    9. Super Computer Quiz cartridges.
    10. Chess Tips.
    11. Chess board with in in to different shapes and then different sizes : - different regular chess board pieces and then different fairy chess board pieces with in in to.

  • Math scrabble implementedDatum06.08.2020 20:15
    Foren-Beitrag von Raman im Thema Math scrabble implemented

    It is impossible for non-administrators of this forum to quote any post from the Announcements Forum because it is not possible to add a reply there.
    Only such posts can be manually quoted by making use of quote tags and post numbers.

    Zitat von Scotty im Beitrag Dictionary
    PS: It makes sense to increase the number of letters on rack to 9.

    Announcements Forum and dictionary prepared by Jouni Tolonen (xyz) recommends players to set rack size to 9. However 10 is the ideal number in my opinion, as players would need more flexibility between digits, operators and = and possibility of short words is completely ruled out in Scrabble with maths equations.
    It would be more interesting to have 11 or 12 tiles in rack to encourage players to form maths equations with longer numbers in them, however they need more equations in the dictionary to play with the computer and would be suitable only to play with other human players online.

    Scrabble3D application currently allows having upto 20 tiles in rack. It can be also increased easily by editing the source code and compiling Scrabble3D application from that, as I tried out with board size, but at least in Windows 10, crash occurred during computer's turn from my own modified and compiled version of Scrabble3D application.
    I am not sure about what happens with other operating systems and by the way I do not have other operating systems with me also right now for me to test them with by myself.

    It is possible to play with only 7 tiles in rack as long as only all numbers are taken in rack. And if playing with a type of variant in which players have the freedom to choose operators and = at their own wishes, each of which are unlimited in number, from the publicly available operator (and =) pool.
    This type of play is not currently supported by Scrabble3D application and it requires a lot of work, by editing the source code and adding a lot of new code and compiling Scrabble3D application from that, in order to play with this type of variant.

    For playing Scrabble with maths equations with the computer, for the best results, it would be good enough to parse every equation whether it is valid or not, by making use of a context free grammar, instead of using a finitely manually defined dictionary that is loaded for Scrabble with maths equations along with the Scrabble3D application.
    Building a trie data structure would be a good idea to check out what possible next letter can come in a maths equation after a certain sequence of letters instead of trying out with all permutations of tile racks at all possible locations of the board along all 2 axes (for 2D games) and along all 3 axes (for 3D games). I think that brute force search for searching for all possible computer moves that are available for play during any given turn by Scrabble3D application is only done by making use of the former approach that I have mentioned and not the latter approach at all.

    [Replace]
    %=mod

    S → Z=Z
    Z → T | -T | T+E | -T+E | T-E | -T-E | T×E | -T×E | T÷E | -T÷E | T^E | -T^E | T%E | -T%E
    E → T | T+E | T-E | T×E | T÷E | T^E | T%E
    T → N | √T | ∛T | ∛-T | ∜T | T² | T³ | T⁴ | T!
    N → L | L.R
    L → D | PY
    Y → D | DY
    R → P | MP
    M → D | MD
    D → 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9
    P → 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9

  • Discussions about forum donationsDatum06.08.2020 18:39
    Foren-Beitrag von Raman im Thema Discussions about forum donations

    Zitat von Bussinchen im Beitrag #23
    Offtopic:

    Yeah, but even for me it is not that comfortable if I need to read so much for example about programming and source code, which I don't know anything about. And if one day your tamil friends came here, maybe they would also prefer so read about the tamil letter set in a different thread instead of being mixed up all in a tumble with considerations about how this forum software works, with ideas about Scottys Scrabble3D source code or different board sizes in Scrabble3D. This is my humble opinion.

    I think that WhatsApp group would be more comfortable to discuss with my Tamil friends than this forum and to organize online Tamil Scrabble tournaments right now and organize offline face to face tournaments in Untangle India or Board Room once the threat of getting infected from COVID-19 ends.
    I think that this forum is better suited for some types of international communication with you regarding issues and suggestions about this forum software and with Scotty regarding issues and suggestions about the Scrabble3D application.

    Anyway that in forums, it is possible to post multiple and long messages to discuss everything in detail. But in WhatsApp groups, some people might not entertain such things which might require too much of scrolling to be irritating and some people might get annoyed with that.
    Anyway that it is possible to pack everything in PDF file for posting single message in Whatsapp groups instead of multiple and long messages without occupying much of space to discuss everything in detail, or a link to a blog, if appropriate, would do.
    (So might be link to some other website page, which if owned personally might be costly and needs to be paid annually to renew it and it will sustain only as long as a person is alive unless taken care by their children generation after generation responsibly enough).

    Zitat von Bussinchen im Beitrag #19
    Dear Raman,
    I think you shouldn't mix too many "offtopic topics" in this thread which is about donations and/or financing the Premium-Tariff for this forum in order to keep useful forum features?

    Couldn't you post it maybe here instead?
    Café
    or here
    General



    You might consider moving all the posts from post 18 in this thread into a separate thread in the General Forum or in the Café forum, named, for example, Scrabble Stories and Word Puzzles, if appropriate, if you want to, which are not related to about donations and / or financing the Premium Tariff for this forum in order to keep useful forum features.
    Or as an alternate measure to it, I will close my discussions in this thread with this post and start a new thread in the General Forum or in the Café forum for such types of discussions, about, for example, Scrabble Stories and Word Puzzles.

    Once the payment of Premium Tariff for this forum to Xobor forums got discontinued, all attached images to any post in this forum which used to appear small and not much of space occupying at the bottom of the post now appears big and much of space occupying at the top of the post.
    I am not sure whether the same type of thing appears to you or not. Awaiting feedback from you regarding the appearence to you of this post. I am not sure whether it is due to discontinuation of payment of Premium Tariff for this forum to Xobor forums or not.

    No, it is not. I removed that manually by editing my post after it had been posted.
    All attached images to this post had been automatically linked inline when the post had been made for the first time. May be that it happens for the first time only that happens only when payment of Premium Tariff for this forum to Xobor forums gets discontinued. Only test images have been attached to this posts in this forum.

    But anyway if whenever an attached image to any post in this forum is placed inline, it also appears in the bottom of the post in the list of all images that are attached to that post in this forum, that are displayed along with list of all images that are attached to that post in this forum that are not placed inline.
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  • Discussions about forum donationsDatum04.08.2020 12:07
    Foren-Beitrag von Raman im Thema Discussions about forum donations

    Anyway that there is seldom the need to send private messages to people in this forum with very few active members. Only secret information need to be shared by there. Otherwise knowledge worthy of sharing with everyone in the world can be posted in this forum.
    I don't think that it is possible to upload file attachments in private messages and post a link of it from there to this forum. Even for attaching a file in private messages, people need to attach it in this forum, no longer possible, blog or some other place and post a link of it in the private message sent.

  • Discussions about forum donationsDatum04.08.2020 06:35
    Foren-Beitrag von Raman im Thema Discussions about forum donations

    [I believe that this part of my own sent message to you contains no confidential information, so I am sharing it also in Scrabble3D forum for sharing knowledge with everyone.]
    Is there any limit to number of private messages for any user that can be stored in Xobor forums? If so, what is that limit? Without premium tariff? With premium tariff?
    In vBulletin type of forum, a bulletin board software based in USA, for registered users with no posts, the private limit capacity is 5 stored messages, it is 100 (later raised to 1000) once a post is made my user. Later first post of user was made to be approved by moderator to avoid spam.

  • Discussions about forum donationsDatum03.08.2020 20:43
    Foren-Beitrag von Raman im Thema Discussions about forum donations

    Zitat von Bussinchen im Beitrag #21
    Yes, but you have always mixed too many different topics in one and same posts in your thread Unfixed bugs in Scrabble3D application..
    That's a pity, and it seems to be quite impossible to separate everything and to move the different topics to new threads.

    But from now on maybe you could start different threads for different topics.

    Only you, me and Scotty are currently active in this forum. So, I think that it is time to just adjust with it simply, and just have my doubts clarified simply here.
    May be in the future if more active users would use this forum, things might need to change. Do you think that it would ever happen?

    Or just it is important to curate data from all my posts in that thread for forum maintenance purposes even if very few people are going to access all of my posts in that thread at least for a while?
    My future continuation of posts in that thread might continue from last post relevant message with some time needed for me to work around it, so that post of mine would not start off a new topic but some starting point should be some old post of mine in that thread.

  • Discussions about forum donationsDatum03.08.2020 20:01
    Foren-Beitrag von Raman im Thema Discussions about forum donations

    Anyway I thought that it was a test post for work around for uploading file attachments in this forum. And for masking the confidential information with other content.
    Anyway that this is a general forum and things related to this forum and the Xobor forum software can be discussed here. We can report bugs and other errors regarding our forum.

    If you think that this post belongs elsewhere and could bring around a good discussion elsewhere in the forum, please move my post of mine in this thread to a different place and start a new discussion there.
    I think that part of my posts in Unfixed bugs in Scrabble3D application thread in Bug Reports and Suggestions forum also belongs elsewhere and could be moved as they are related to questions about this forum and Scrabble3D application and how board layout, letter set, points for letters and dictionary words can be customized beyond the limits of Classic Scrabble and Super Scrabble. And how the Scrabble3D application source code could be modified to handle that extension beyond its own limits, isn't it?

  • Discussions about forum donationsDatum03.08.2020 19:14
    Foren-Beitrag von Raman im Thema Discussions about forum donations

    Anyway that I decided to go ahead with this test post for a workaround for posting attachments in this forum.

    Zitat von Bussinchen im Beitrag 1. August 2020: Bekanntmachung zum Scrabble3D-Forum
    My reasons are partly private, but i have also seen over the years that people here post almost nothing and are no longer actively involved in Scrabble3D (exception: Raman from India, who recently created a Tamil.dic for Scrabble3D; see Tamil). This means that there have been no significant, let alone interesting, discussions in the whole of previous years since 2014.

    In Scrabble3D application, people can be able to create and customize dictionary, letter set and points of letters as per their own wishes. And not like Webfeud http://www.webfeud.com/ where developers themselves create and use dictionaries, both official and unofficial, from different sources only.
    I got hold of Scrabble3D application from the Wikipedia page on Scrabble tile distributions for different languages. When it said about Maths Scrabble I got the link from it, which I had been longing to play it for a long period of time and trying out with an experience upon it.
    I myself had the idea of building customizable Scrabble application back in 2014 when I tried out to make tiles for Tamil Scrabble and Maths Scrabble printed on chart paper pasted with gum on cardboard (front side and back side for Tamil Scrabble) and cut with scissors, to play with my family, friends and relatives.
    But right now what is the point for me to overlap the work? I can do so the same for Chess, Go or Cluedo as I had did so with printing on chart paper pasted with gum on cardboard and cut with scissors, to play with my family, friends and relatives back in 2018.

    For chess and variants, jocly.com (French website page) supported variety of chess and variants and variety of other 2 player strategy games with no element of chance such as those random elements like cards, dice and luck of draws.
    It got shut down on Wednesday 24 October 2018, because the server had been confiscated and the website page owner had no idea about what the attackers were planning to do with that website page.
    Demo page of that website page for playing against weaker computer players and other human players on same personal computer but never against other human players over network is still available on github website page, as of yet.
    https://mi-g.github.io/jocly/examples/br...metamachy-chess. Click upon 'Other Jocly Games' to see list of all of types of available Jocly games to be played over thereby. lichess.org and chess.com also offers quite a many number of chess variants too.

    It is a good feature of all forums to preview messages before posting it, to see any confidential parts of the message are properly masked, though they can be edited before other people seeing it shortly afterwards. In this forum, there are few active members to see it and for non-moderators of a forum, editing time is limited, 1 hour in this forum.

    List of Karnataka State Scrabble Association (Bangalore Scrabble Club) members and their isc.ro handles.
    Guinness world record of largest Scrabble board size, credits to Hieko Tietze, developer of Scrabble3D application.
    I made this as a reply to:

    Guinness world record of largest Scrabble tile rack size, credits to Abhijit Shilotri, member of Karnataka State Scrabble Association (Bangalore Scrabble club) and owner of Ahaa Furniture Store in Bangalore. Please visit https://www.ahaa.in/ for more information about how to order Scrabble racks and Scrabble tiles with any letter set and anything and everything from wood can be made in that shop.
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  • Discussions about forum donationsDatum03.08.2020 15:56
    Foren-Beitrag von Raman im Thema Discussions about forum donations

    Zitat von Bussinchen im Beitrag #13
    Yes, that's right. I deleted not only spammers (they are rare because of our security precautions), but also people who register as members and then never have logged in again. They are quite a lot of people who do so, especially in the present boring Covid-19-time. By doing so, they don't even realise that they create the risk that the tariff for this forum would become much more expensive. But we have also a lot of members who only register their membership because they want to tell Scotty that the Scrabble3D server is down, for example here in German on Server down? or in English on Server status, which they could do also as a guest without registration as a member. But when people have written something in this forum, even if it is only one single post, i don't delete those members.

    After how long will you delete those members? I don't think that you will do so within a short period after their registration, isn't it?
    Now there is no more risk for Professional Tariff fare being increased even if there are more than 250 users registered in this forum, even if I invite interested people from other social media and other clubs to discuss about Tamil Scrabble in this forum, if they are interested to do so with. They can make use of this forum without file attachments but they can upload any images by making use of addpics.com, isn't it?

    Zitat von Bussinchen im Beitrag #13
    In this world, it's all about money all the time and everywhere.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptWlPV6at38
    Bhutan is a country with emphasis on happiness and they measure their development by Gross National Happiness instead of Gross Domestic Product. Where did the western world go wrong?
    If I understand correctly, money is to reward people for their hard work, whether for doctors or farmers or software engineers, and only if something of use to other people is worked upon or developed, they will buy it and this will make both the buyer and seller happy.

    What about not commercially useful enough knowledge? Is money the only thing in life? There are a lot of beautiful things in maths, science and literature in different languages that can be admired only by studying and teaching and not worked out and sold. And we can also research and work of our own and publish our research results in different journals or present in different conferences.
    Teaching job is not highly paid because most people want to be rich and for some of types of other people who even don't want to be, other people demand them with more money by working out and by helping other people with their needs and force them to and so most rich people invest only on companies to improve their business and to make them even furthermore richer enough and not on research institutes enough. Writing books is just a matter of luck, like making a movie, whether it will be a matter of hit or flap. Where do you think that not commercially useful enough knowledge stands in this world and getting famous by discovering new things and exploring unknown mysteries of nature instead of making more money in this world?

  • Discussions about forum donationsDatum03.08.2020 13:59
    Foren-Beitrag von Raman im Thema Discussions about forum donations

    Buying more storage space for me one person is not absolutely necessary, but only if more and more users require with it. That too .zip files that is general format packing any type of file into one single file can only be attached with premium tariff? SSG files cannot be attached even with premium tariff? It is only to share my board layout, tile distribution and points for letters with other people, though this is not the only type of file that anyone needs to share with other people in this forum. Base tariff with 6€ per month is also part of premium tariff only?
    I can always attach my files about Scrabble3D application at some other place (may be in a blog or may be at https://www.hpm-support.de/?) and make a link of it to my posts here.

    If 250 or more members are registered in this forum, professional tariff fare will go upto 17€ per month? How many users are actively registered in this forum right now? Information at the top of the page says that it is 230.
    Seriously is that all the number since when this forum first started in 2005 (Scotty's registration year)? In the recent years, were there rise or fall in number of users registering, even if not for users posting?

    I see that your forum ID is 252490 (registered on Wednesday 12 September 2007). My forum ID is 253025 (registered on Friday 1 May 2020). I see a gap of at least 535 users in more than 12 years.
    Or 230 is the number of active users in this forum. Or inbetween quite a number of user accounts who were spammers were manually deleted by making use of the forum administrators?

    No need to re-compile Scrabble3D application once again and upload it on sourceforge.
    I just checked that link to forum from Scrabble3D application only links to http://17085.homepagemodules.de/ and not to https://www.scrabble3d.info/ for anticipation that this will happen in the future enough or as it was so previously enough.

  • Discussions about forum donationsDatum03.08.2020 11:05
    Foren-Beitrag von Raman im Thema Discussions about forum donations

    I just understand what it means for me to see a dying forum.

    It is not important for the forum to be advertisement free or the domain name to be beautiful https://www.scrabble3d.info/ or the forum to run without Activity Feed. But there should be freedom to attach at least small files with every post to share one's work with all other people in the world.
    Would it be at least possible to continue to make new posts even if not for attachments? The maximum allowed storage space could be at least 500 MB. At least for 1€ to 2€ per month, even if not for the full professional tariff fare, more storage space could be allowed. I am not demanding for it, just saying a word about it.

    I hope that Bussinchen and Scotty both will continue to read http://17085.homepagemodules.de/ at least for a while. Is it possible to reach you both at https://scrabble-talk.de/ also?
    I think that it would be a good idea to register there and attach files there and post a link of it here. Or some other website serves the purpose for it with permanent storage?
    I don't think that it would be possible to freely discuss about Scrabble3D application features and forum features there. May be that Scrabble3D application forum link could redirect to https://scrabble-talk.de/ for discussion by future people. Or that it is primarily for German players only?

    Scotty: If you think that enough people would be interested in using Scrabble3D application and this forum in the future, I think that you must re-compile Scrabble3D application in sourceforge for forum link to direct to http://17085.homepagemodules.de/ instead of https://www.scrabble3d.info/. Or is that possible by one small change in sourceforge page instead of the need to re-compile the entire Scrabble3D application?
    Will that also get updated for people who have already downloaded with Scrabble3D application in their personal computer when that they check for updates either automatically periodically or manually by knowing this matter?
    If you ever think about re-compiling the Scrabble3D application for this primary need, I would also like you to make some small and simple changes, like increasing the maximum board size allowed to be 100. I am facing errors while compiling and I will talk more about it in the upcoming days in the Bug Reports and Suggestions forum in my own created Unfixed bugs in Scrabble3D application thread.

    X-axis could use conventional Hindu-Arabic numerals 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, ..., Y-axis could use Arabic numerals and Z-axis could use Devanagiri numerals for unlimited count.
    Or keeping the current co-ordinate system as such, for Latin alphabet along Y-axis and Greek alphabet along Z-axis, you could use following co-ordinate system A, ..., Z, AA, ..., AZ, BA, ..., BZ, .... You could also correct the algorithm for Roman numerals, for the first 15 numerals it returns [I, I, I, IV, V, I, I, I, IX, X, I, I, I, IV, V]. Result:='' should go out of the while loop for a simple fix so that the Result string will not reset every time a new single letter or letter pair is added to that string.
    If that work would also be worthy for you, you could consider adding 5 time, 6 time, 7 time, 8 time, 9 time and 10 time letter score, word score and letter score malus if that work would not be too much of effort by you at all.

    Bussinchen: Yes, I think of making an update to tamil.dic next month, after quite an amount of work, to make the dictionary file shorter and with shorter meanings because useless parts of the meaning after first semicolon are not read by the Scrabble3D application anyway.
    I also think of revising some of the points for the different Tamil letters to reward players with more points for playing more difficult to play and rarely used letters. And also to keep a balance of all of numbers from 1 to 10 in a strictly decreasing manner for points of each of type of Tamil letters. This type of file could directly be e-mailed to you both but that for some other types of files that it might be good if one's work is shared with all other people in the world with permanent storage for interested people to access it in the future. It is not possible to say for now whenever that would happen ever, isn't it?

    Yes, you could spent money on merituous things like helping the Iranian boy with his life instead of spending it on a forum with a very few number of active users every day.
    Just out of curiosity, what is his specialization in his education? Where did he pursue his education, in Canada or Germany, was it for Bachelor's degree? And was his master's degree in England? Is he in a job right now? If so, what type of job right now? Or is he a professor right now after completing his Ph.D. degree? Where is his job right now? How old is he right now? Is he happy right now or not?
    What are the barbarous Scharia laws?

  • Discussions about forum donationsDatum02.08.2020 15:28
    Foren-Beitrag von Raman im Thema Discussions about forum donations

    Zitat von Bussinchen im Beitrag #3
    Since yesterday we cannot use the Thanks function any more, because it was included in the Premium Tarif which is 12 € per month for forums with less than 250 registrated members. And the last forum invoice I had got on 1st of August 2019 was paid for 1 whole year which meant until the end of July 2020. After that date (= yesterday, 1st August 2020) the Premium tariff features were stopped automatically.

    Navigation bar and Thanks function are unimportant things of the forum for them to be paid to be used.
    The important features of the forum are to talk with each other to exchange each other's ideas and to share one's work with everyone else in the world by attaching them as files to their posts in this forum. I hope that at least they will not disappear.

    Zitat von Bussinchen im Beitrag #3
    First of all: No, this forum will not disappear. It will continue and no data, even those once uploaded, will disappear. However, this forum will be financed by banner ads, i.e. by commercial advertising, which our forum hoster, Miranus GmbH in Berlin, gets money from, which in the next step, will contribute to finance their big servers in Berlin, Germany, where the data of this forum, and all the other Xobor-forums, are hosted. I hope that nobody will be distracted too much from reading the posts and when answering. The URL https://www.scrabble3d.info/ will change back to former http://17085.homepagemodules.de/ (without https), I think, in some days, when the money for that scrabble3d.info domain is not paid within the next few days.

    Just to clarify: Can at least 2 MB of files be attached to every post of anyone, even if not for 12 MB, as you had said before itself?
    That will be more than sufficient enough for the future for me. Even at least 100 KB of files to be attached to every post of mine would be sufficient enough for me in the future. Or even that would not be possible because of 100 MB allowed storage space on this forum been already used up?

    But at the same time please make sure that the link to the forum from the Scrabble3D application and sourceforge page would direct to http://17085.homepagemodules.de/ for future discussion and reference by future members of this forum and not direct to https://www.scrabble3d.info/.
    I wish that it would have changed about that in social media websites also like Facebook and Twitter where I had shared my work about Tamil Scrabble to interested people there to use this forum for discussion. Let me see if anyone else would be interested in this in the future. But unfortunately that once a post is made on Facebook or that once a tweet is made on Twitter, they cannot be edited after a very long enough period of time, isn't it?

  • Discussions about forum donationsDatum02.08.2020 12:17
    Foren-Beitrag von Raman im Thema Discussions about forum donations

    Of course, I agree that it would be reasonable for anyone to buy a piece of software to use it. Scrabble3D is free software, and so is playing on server as well.
    I could develop my own piece of software to play Scrabble but I do not have a server to play online.

    Most company employees think of new ways to improve their business and attract people to make profit by helping them with their needs. But that is not all of life.
    Some people including me also think that knowledge is important and so is getting famous through work of knowledge that is being research related and they keep on exploring new mysteries of nature to discover them (for example maths, science, literature in different languages, arts and humanities, they would only be for happiness and labour of love and nothing will be absolutely essential enough to other people unless they are related to medical field or agricultural field, isn't it?). Forgetting about money, not highly paid teaching jobs exist for them.

    I also do the same type of thing on a Scrabble board, to find out what new and strange things can go inside of it. For me, it is a research code instead of playing Scrabble commercially and competitively like other people.
    It is also good source of entertainment for me during the grave times of COVID-19 pandemic in India when because of curfews and lockdowns it is not possible to go out and enjoy and keep my own mind engaged and relaxing by playing games with Scrabble3D application instead of getting vexed through.

    Everyone would be fascinated to see what strange things can go inside Scrabble board. To put things in short, I played Scrabble with perfect squares (people cannot play without the aid of helper tools). Good density to play. Triangular numbers also have same O(n²) density. Recently I tried out Scrabble with Roman numerals also (open to everyone in world). It was also very exciting enough.

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  • Discussions about forum donationsDatum02.08.2020 11:11
    Thema von Raman im Forum Forum, Facebook, Twitter

    Zitat von Bussinchen im Beitrag 1. August 2020: Bekanntmachung zum Scrabble3D-Forum
    Since the name Scrabble3D no longer appears in the URL, this forum becomes more anonymous on the Internet, which is of course a pity. I am well aware of this.

    When will this happen, i.e. name Scrabble3D will disappear from URL? It will not cause the entire forum to be completely deleted, isn't it?

    Zitat
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    Hello Raman!
    We hope that you like our forum and that you feel just as comfortable here as we
    do.
    In order to offer you and the other members the best possible, we would like to make the forum ad-free and supplement it with great new extras.

    If you want to help us with this, you can help fund these changes with the help of a small
    donation.
    Your donation
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    You made this exclusively for me or does this appear for everyone registered in this forum?
    I reply to this as a matter of respect to you.

    Sorry, we are not a rich family by German standards and even a few Euros mean too many Indian rupees for us. I was a student until recently and started working only during the past few years.
    And I am jobless since the COVID-19 outbreak in India. It is safe for me to go for a job only when it is safe to do so (until then only not highly paid work from home jobs I will be able to do).

    Over the past few months I have discussed things about Scrabble3D in this forum that took little of Scotty's time and Bussinchen's time. Over the next few months, I might discuss topics that would also need very little input from you both.
    It makes sense for me to donate to people who would require from me to work hard every day (I do not want to mention the other place here what that is). And also it makes sense to give priority to people who need lot of money urgently for surgery and hospitalization because of suffering from health related issues, e.g. cancer, accident, Thalassemia Major (bone marrow transplant), liver transplant, etc., isn't it?

    Advertisements are not an issue for me and it does not cause any of my posts or any of other people's posts to be lost while reading, isn't it?
    Please continue to get funding through advertisements and from other people who would be rich.

    If I would be able to donate, it would be some years after and not right now.
    Future savings are important for us right now in case some of type of emergency happens to us in urgent needs of funds during the next few years later on.

    Thank you for your own interest.

  • Unfixed bugs in Scrabble3D application.Datum24.07.2020 17:30

    Zitat von Scotty im Beitrag #73
    Sorry, busy days. Can you run the application with a debugger to track down the AV? It might depend on your patches and the actual configuration so a bit difficult for me (besides the non-latin fonts that I cannot display with default setup). If the AV comes only during computer moves you could try to disable multi-threading (needed for the debugging anyway).

    I understand that you are busy with your own paid work during all of these days. But you might need only little time to spare with me.

    Zitat von Scotty im Beitrag #73
    The read-only edit field is a convenience feature to access content of the config directory and not meant to change the location, yes.

    Scrabble3D.conf file in the config directory contains the path of the config directory. Changing this to another path would not help out because this file is inside the config directory that is needed to step inside to read that file. Changing path of config directory from Scrabble3D application would only be meaningful if it were not read-only edit text field and if alternate path can be given for alternate installation of Scrabble3D application in a different folder which would be my own modified and compiled version of Scrabble3D application.

    What version of Lazarus IDE and FreePascal compiler did you make use of for packing of latest released version of Scrabble3D application. May be that I would try out compiling with that version of Lazarus IDE and FreePascal compiler if the latest version of the compiler received some major changes with respect to UTF8 functions.

    I am receiving crashes during computer's turn in my own compiled version of Scrabble3D application even without modifying the source code that was downloaded and opened in the Lazarus IDE from sourceforge. The crashes happen both when computer's computation of list of all of valid moves that are available to play in any Scrabble board position is multi-threaded or not.

    I have received exception SIGSEGV at many lines but these are the major ones:
    Without multi-threading:
    line 866 in ubruteforce.pas
    (bMove.Letters[k].What=aMove.Letters[k].What) and

    With multi-threading:
    line 104 in uletter.pas
    Result:=FWhere[index];

    I have also received exception SIGSEGV in LazUTF8.pas (not related to the source code of Scrabble3D application)
    in UTF8Length function.
    line 487 in LazUTF8.pas
    CharLen:=UTF8CodepointSize(p);

    The major changes I made to the code are increasing maximum size of board to 100, changing board co-ordinate labels to Devanagiri numerals (Hindi numerals) along X-axis, Arabic numerals along Y-axis and conventional Hindu Arabic numerals along Z-axis.
    I don't think that array size need to be modified accordingly from 48 in any of these files for them to throw an array index out of bounds exception. Anyway that it is not the error message that I am getting with.

    Anyway that the first changes that I would like to do in the source code would be to increase the maximum size of board to 100 and adding 5x - 10x letter score, 5x - 10x word score and 5x - 10x letter score malus.
    May be that supporting play for more than 4 players both online and offline would also be good enough.

    May be that you could also try out by yourself with the source code changes that I had already mentioned in my own post 68 in this thread and find out whether you would receive the same crash or not. May be that you might be making use of different operating system, and it would be also worthy of trying out by me with a different operating system if it were available for me and if it were possible for me to go out and install it either in my computer or in some other computer by myself or with the help of someone else if there were not for COVID-19 curfews and lockdowns during the current period of time.
    It seems that Scrabble3D application is not supported by the latest versions of Macbook operating systems, a person from the Scrabble club in which I am currently a member of, who would be interested in trying out with Scrabble variants whenever that I mentioned already to him about the Scrabble3D application told me ever, that he could neither install directly nor try out compiling from the source code indirectly with or without modifying the source code that was downloaded and opened in the Lazarus IDE from sourceforge.

  • Unfixed bugs in Scrabble3D application.Datum23.07.2020 16:49

    Scotty: Why do you not respond? I would be happy if you would help me to fix one small issue.
    How do I get rid of 'Access Violation' error during computer's turn in my own modified and compiled version of Scrabble3D application to a different folder?

    It seems that the config directory cannot be changed manually from the Scrabble3D application from the Configuration -> Settings (Network page). Is it so?
    I tried out to remove Scrabble3D.conf file from the config directory and regenerate it from my own modified and compiled version of Scrabble3D application, on assuming that Access Violation occurred because the original version of Scrabble3D application was simultaneously sharing the access with my own modified and compiled version of Scrabble3D application, but it did not help out either.

  • Unfixed bugs in Scrabble3D application.Datum22.07.2020 19:15

    Thank you. May be I earlier read about it in the Announcements Forum without the full description stated there on how to make use of it.

    This feature is really nice! Works well for Classic Scrabble and Super Scrabble with languages based out of Latin Script except for one major bug that is listed below. This is what the majority of the players would be interested in. This feature does not have the full functionality, however.

    [Major bug]
    The digit 0 is not recognized by Scrabble3D application for co-ordinates along X-axis. For example, if I type C10, then the starting position for tile placing remains at C1.
    Even if one tile is placed on Scrabble board by dragging and dropping of mouse, then typing from keyboard for placing the remaining letters on the Scrabble board is impossible. May be for horizontal play it would be better to place the remaining letters by typing from keyboard at first from the next square to the right and then last tile have to be placed by dragging and dropping of mouse at columns along X-axis which have the digit 0 in them. This does not work out for vertical play at a column along X-axis which has the digit 0 in it.

    [This feature does not have the full functionality, however]
    For 2D boards, right and down cursor keys can be used for placing horizontally and vertically respectively. And left and up cursor keys for placing in reverse direction for languages like Arabic, Persian, Urdu, etc. What about that for 3D boards? Is the feature implemented for that also? If so, at least 6 cursor keys are needed for that case.

    For a 33×33 board, there will be both uppercase 'A' and lowercase 'a' co-ordinate along Y-axis. Since the alphabetical co-ordinates that are typed from keyboard are case insensitive, only the uppercase alphabets, namely that the top 26 rows are recognized by Scrabble3D application.

    If digraphs are used in some languages, then can the replacement number representing that digraph in the dictionary be typed from the keyboard to place that letter pair tile in the Scrabble board?
    What about that for accented characters and Scrabble with mathematical equations, Tamil Scrabble, etc. containing non-ASCII characters? And that for English phonetic Scrabble containing Unicode characters?
    What if both uppercase characters and lowercase characters are used in a dictionary given that typing of alphabets from keyboard is case insensitive for recognition by Scrabble3D application?
    In Tamil Scrabble, to avoid confusion, I have replaced all lowercase alphabets by making use of symbols and other non-ASCII characters. In English phonetic dictionary, all alphabets that are made use of there are always lowercase but some lowercase alphabets are not there and some lowercase alphabets are replaced by making use of their Unicode equivalents.

    Joker tile is used for an alphabet that is typed from keyboard if that letter does not exist in the rack. What if a word contains 2 same letter with only one of them in the rack and the other is to be used with a joker tile, and the joker tile is to be used for the first instance of the letter in the word because the second instance of the letter in the word scores points because of the fact that it is kept on a premium square?

    Even if I change the Scrabble board co-ordinate labels as shown in the image above by editing the source code and compiling on my own, then also only alphabets and numbers are to be used to place tiles on the Scrabble board by typing from the keyboard until I change the source code that would correspond to that also. However that it would work out only for the top 26 rows of the Scrabble board in any case, for any of type of manually defined custom size of Scrabble board.

    (The above image shown had been taken as a screenshot by loading the saved game in my own modified and compiled version of Scrabble3D application, but that was played with one single other computer opponent player in original version of Scrabble3D application only. Playing with computer opponent players in my own modified and compiled version of Scrabble3D application does not work out at all, as it would throw away an error message of Access Violation during computer's turn, just simply.)|addpics|ubb-2n-b113.png-invaddpicsinvv|/addpics|

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