Fifteen Applet

Copyright © 2000 by Telsa Gwynne

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Fifteen Applet

Fifteen Applet

Fifteen applet, shown in Figure 1, is a version of the old game of moving squares around a grid to put them into numerical order. To add this applet to a Panel, right-click on the Panel and choose Panel->Add to panel->Applet->Amusements->Fifteen.

Figure 1. Fifteen Applet

Usage

The applet starts with the pieces in the correct order: this is the order you will need to restore them to. To start a new game, right-click on the applet and select Scramble Pieces. Move the pieces by clicking on them with the left mouse button until you have restored them all to their original positions. When you have done this, you will see a You win! dialog box.

Right-clicking on the applet brings up a menu containing the following items:

  • Scramble pieces — randomly rearranges the tile positions. Use this to start a new game.

  • Help — displays this document.

  • About… — shows basic information about Fifteen applet, inluding the applet's version and the author's name.

Known Bugs and Limitations

This applet has no known bugs.

Authors

Fifteen was written by Federico Mena Quintero (). It is based on the game described by Sam Lloyd in 1878. Please send all comments, suggestions, and bug reports to the GNOME bug tracking database. (Instructions for submitting bug reports can be found on-line. If you are using GNOME 1.1 or later, you can also use Bug Report Tool (bug-buddy), available in the Utilities submenu of Main Menu, for submitting bug reports.

This manual was written by Telsa Gwynne (). Please send all comments and suggestions regarding this manual to the GNOME Documentation Project by sending an email to . You can also submit comments online by using the GNOME Documentation Status Table.

License

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

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