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- Wumpus Tracker -- FREEWARE
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- by H.L. Fuller/VT 76164,3656
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- Wumpus Tracker is a <<FREE>> Windows applet which functions
- as a kind of scratch pad. You can use it to make notes
- as you explore the Wumpus realm. At the conclusion of
- a round, you can click one button to clear the
- scratch pad and get ready for a new game.
-
- The applet is very rudimentary. The single form presents
- a numbered array of 20 pairs of text boxes, each corresponding to
- one of the 20 rooms in Hunt the Wumpus. You can
- use one box in a numbered pair to note the rooms which
- connect to the numbered room. You can use the other
- box to make notes about hazards & wumpi, present
- or nearby.
-
- To use the Tracker, open it when you are playing
- Hunt the Wumpus. Use your mouse to make Tracker
- the active window and to position your cursor
- in the text box you want to use. Then just type your
- notes.
-
- As you play, you'll be moving back and forth between
- the Wumpus window and the Tracker window.
-
- Things I would fix if I did this again include...
-
- o ... the size and the position of the tracker window.
- As is, it overlaps the Wumpus game window. You have to
- drag each to opposite corners so that you can view
- both windows at once. Yukko.
-
- o ..."automated updating." It wouldn't be hard to
- toggle up code which automatically inserts implications
- in the text boxes associated with rooms other than the
- room you are currently in. I thought about doing this,
- but I decided it would kind of take the sport out of Hunt the Wumpus.
- Plus it was a nice sunny day and I felt like going outside.
-
- Source code is here, so if anybody feels like fooling around
- with it and souping it up a bit, go for it. I'd like to
- know about and try out improved versions, so if you don't
- mind dropping me a note if/when you jazz it up, I'd appreciate it.
-
- Hope you find it useful...
-
- ;->,
-
- -- HeST.
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