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Your .exe files are bad form (how do we know you're not disseminating a computer virus?), and won't run on my Linux system. I suggest Java or Flash as an alternative method of presentation.

'andré julien' schrieb:

The puzzles in question are jigsaws made with BrainsBreaker (www. brainsbreaker.com). I am using Puzzle Master myself, an old version of Jigsaws Galore available from www.dgray.com . These programs (I bet there are more) allow you to make puzzles from any image and save them as .exe file to be given away, just as Andre has done.

Let me digress here upon some general points about computerized jigsaws.

The obvious advantage to using a program to do jigsaws is convenience.

The not-so-obvious advantage is the way you select your puzzles. I can for example decide that I want to do a puzzle of Paris. I ask Google Images to search for large pictures of Paris, and that leads me to very nice pictures of the opera house. They make great puzzles. Just save the .jpg, import it into Puzzle Master, done.

The main disadvantages are twofold:

a) there no screens as large as a big puzzle of 1000+ pieces, which puts a limit on the number of pieces you can use before they get too small. I find that 500 pieces is about the limit on my 19' monitor.

b) The handling is not as satisfying as with a cardboard puzzle. Shifting, grouping and rotating them takes more time with a mouse than with fingers.

I found two special types of puzzles interesting: the 'moving puzzle' where the motive is a video of sorts, and the 3D puzzle. I don't like material 3D puzzles because they look clunky when put together. The virtual version looks perfect. The Notre Dame 3D Puzzle software shows you a documentary clip about each part that you complete, so you learn not only how it looks, but also something of its history and architecture as well.

What do *you* think of computer jigsaws?

Cheers

Well, if you put it that way...

As (among other things) a Flash developer, I find this intriguing. What 'security risks' are you referring to? As far as I'm aware, Flash is pretty much safe. There was a brief worry about a buffer overflow issue a while back, but I think Macromedia fixed it almost immediately (and pointed out that in fact, it couldn't have been used maliciously in any case). But I'm not particularly clued up in the hacking world, so I'd be glad to know otherwise - and I'm sure Macromedia would too!

Danny Kodicek schrieb:

There's a general risk of installing any plugin whose security one cannot judge. I couldn't. So far, Flash 5, 6.0 and 7.0 had security problems, although none have been documented this year (so far).

I've reviewed http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/whitepapers/ security.pdf today, and it claims that Flash implements sandbox security that looks pretty tight (even though I don't like that up to 100 kB can be stored on my Harddisk - why is that necessary?). So I now concur in your 'pretty much safe' assessment.

However, I find from perusing the system requirements posted on macromedia.com that my platform is not supported. But that goes for an up-to-date Java as well, so that may not matter much.

Cheers

Were they genuine problems or just scares? I'd have expected to have heard about them if they turned out to be well founded. Certainly Flash has had the sandbox security model for a good few versions.

It allows for the setting of user preferences, high scores and the like. I don't think 100K is *that* much to worry about

So I now concur in your

What platform is that? I know that, unlike Shockwave, there is a Flash player for Linux, but I don't know enough about that platform to know whether they would need different flavours to make it work. It seems to me that it's not commercially unreasonable to concentrate on the very much larger proportion of the user base who use Win and Mac, although personally I'd certainly like to see a Linux player for Shockwave (dream on...)

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