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General Category => Word Games => Topic started by: Alan W on March 12, 2021, 01:14:57 PM
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Some of you may have noticed the word "new" appearing on some of the tabs for Chihuahua puzzles:
(https://theforum.lexigame.com/new.png)
This is for the benefit of people (like me) who aim to play every daily puzzle. It is intended to alert you when there are currently-open puzzles that you haven't yet played.
It won't always be accurate if you play on multiple devices.
If you never see this "new" message, it may be that your version of Chihuahua hasn't yet updated. Give it a day or two.
Please let me know if there are any problems with this new feature.
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I've been waiting for someone to make a comment.
I was getting a bit worried that it was just me having one of my moments as i was not absolutely certain if it had always been there & i had failed to see it or simply forgotten about it.
So i am relieved to learn that is a new feature.
A wonderful user friendly innovation that only enhances my enjoyment of the game.
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I played the UK 4pm game just after it opened (yesterday) but it shows as new this morning. The same happened yesterday morning. It doesn't bother me but it was a bit puzzling.
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I've just realised it does that every time that I log out and then back in again so I assume that is the proper function that you intended Alan. Sorry - just my usual lack of technical computer knowledge!
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I have no problem with the new new tags. But while we are discussing changes to the interface, I'd like to bring up an issue that has plagued me for a long time. I play on an 8" Samsung tablet in touch mode. My problem is the Submit arrow that sits behind the letters on the input cross. On my touch screen, it is very difficult to hit a letter for input without also hitting a submit arrow. In trying to put in a longer word, I tend to find that I have input a shorter accepted word on the way to completing my longer input, and then my next selection that i try to put in is the start of a new input string. In some instances, it is very difficult to get a large word input before it gives up entirely, telling me that the string of letters I have put in on the way wasn't accepted. Then I have to start again. I have learnt that if I am very careful I can get a full word in, but it does require extreme care. When I started with Chihuahua one of the goals I set myself was to get a high percentage score, but this problem has meant that I have to give that aspect of the game up. I generally get a score now in the 70-80% range, even if I have never tried to submit an unaccepted word.
It may be that my tablet is over-sensitive; or that my touch is quite clumsy. I'd like to know whether I am the only one who has this technical problem, or are there others. I would dearly like to see those input arrows disappear, but only if it is a general problem. I've lived with it for years and can do so into the future.
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I've occasionally submitted a nonsensical 'word' due to those arrows but as I couldn't care less about my percentage rate it doesn't bother me. I play partly on a larger Samsung tablet on which the game is unstable and buggy, but using the pen that came with it I can to some extent reduce the problems such as the game reducing to an unusable size at the corner of the screen. Using the pen I find it quicker to double tap on the last letter of the word to submit it rather than move to the 'Submit' button, so I wouldn't like those arrows to be removed. The drawback of doing it that way is that when I move to the 7-by-many puzzle I forget that the arrow isn't there and add the letter to the word again instead of submitting it.
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I always play on a desktop computer and use the keyboard to input the words. As I'm a touch typist I just find this method quick and simple. Have tried playing on various tablets but I prefer the use of a 'proper' keyboard and a large screen. Showing my age, I guess! >:D
PS The New tabs are a useful addition to the game but did they have to be maroon?! :-[
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I always play on a desktop computer and use the keyboard to input the words. As I'm a touch typist I just find this method quick and simple. Have tried playing on various tablets but I prefer the use of a 'proper' keyboard and a large screen. Showing my age, I guess! >:D
Oh Linda once again we are totally in agreement :) I trained as a secretary when typewriters weren't plugged in & Pitman was in demand :laugh:
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Me too, Pen, although I was never taught shorthand - I can scribble pretty quickly, but even I have trouble deciphering what I've written and my 4s look like my 6s which can cause a few problems when passing on phone messages!
Do you have any strong feelings about the maroon New tabs? I only ask because I have an aversion to dark purple(ish) shades and wondered if we have this trait in common as well?! >:D
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I can see how confusing 4s & 6s might be a problem!!
Maroon is one of my least favourite colours I have to be honest but I don't feel as strongly as you! I hate brown more :laugh: Prefer a nice shade of red >:D
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Prefer a nice shade of red >:D
My very favourite colour is a cherry red! Most of my favourite clothes over the years have been that shade.
Brown is usually very drab and I'm not keen on orange or green. I wonder whether Alan could change the New tab to a nice red shade if we asked very nicely? >:D
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Linda - I expect that your aversion to brown and orange comes from being young in the 1970's! The wages from my first Saturday job were spent on a brown skirt and polo neck from Chelsea Girl (which I think was a chain and not just in Leeds). This was ironic because I had chosen my High School place ( or at least I had tried to influence my parents choice!) largely on the fact that the uniform was maroon whereas the nearest High had a brown uniform! I do like green however. In my career in car sales so many customers thought green cars were bad luck but I always told them I had owned quite a few green cars and had only had accidents in blue ones!
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Brown is usually very drab and I'm not keen on orange or green. I wonder whether Alan could change the New tab to a nice red shade if we asked very nicely? >:D
It's worth a try Linda - you never know ;) He might be susceptible to flattery! >:D
Christine is spot on about browns & oranges. My school uniform was red jumper & black skirt & blazer so not too bad.
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I suspect the appeal to a color change would have to be based on cyber/cognitive/intellectual grounds. No idea how that would work.
On subject of colors, much closer to my comfort zone, their appeal changes don’t they? Depending on how they are mixed, or adjacent.
Like that deep dive into the New brown maroon—definitely jolting. Definitely needs a companion color.
Hoping Alan’s supply of headache remedies is inexhaustible.
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Hoping Alan’s supply of headache remedies is inexhaustible.
Actually, changing colours is easy. Solving problems like Roddles' premature submissions is difficult.
I went for maroon simply because that's the colour of the type when the time the puzzle starts is displayed. So I made that the background for the "new" icon.
Maybe it could be the same colour as the background for error messages when a word is rejected:
(https://theforum.lexigame.com/newnew.png)
Apparently this colour is sometimes known as guardsman red - I don't know if that appeals to you, Linda?
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Roddles, I haven't got a solution to your problem (and pat's problem sometimes, and no doubt other people's problem too). I had a Samsung tablet myself for a couple of years, and didn't notice such a problem, but of course Samsung makes a multitude of different models, which might react slightly differently to touch screen actions.
Your letter selection will be treated as a word submission too, if you hold down your finger too long, because the letter will have moved away so that your finger is now on the green arrow. But if you try to give each letter a short sharp jab, your finger might bounce, leading you to do an inadvertent double-tap. Obviously you need a Goldilocks touch - not too slow and not too sharp, but just right.
I'll have a think about any adjustments to the mechanism that might make things a bit less "touchy", without interfering with the option of using a double-tap to complete the word.
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So much talk about what colours people like! I am colour blind (tritanope) and have trouble telling some blues and greens apart and then there is the pink/orange group. I have never been able to explain what I see until recently. This website (https://asada.website/cvsimulator/my_images/Home3-e2.2.jpg)shows you what we colour blind see.
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Apparently this colour is sometimes known as guardsman red - I don't know if that appeals to you, Linda?
I can't speak for Linda but I like it. Much better than maroon!
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So much talk about what colours people like! I am colour blind (tritanope) and have trouble telling some blues and greens apart and then there is the pink/orange group. I have never been able to explain what I see until recently. This website (https://asada.website/cvsimulator/my_images/Home3-e2.2.jpg)shows you what we colour blind see.
That's very interesting Stanley. It's something I've wondered about & also how do you know you're colour blind as you probably think what you see is normal. Presumably it possible that somebody who is colour blind may not know if the tomatoes are ripe or not.
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I can't speak for Linda but I like it. Much better than maroon!
As ever, we are in agreement, Pen! Vast improvement, Alan - I would be thrilled if the maroon could be changed to guardsman red. The red of the car icon is also a good colour. :-C
I expect that your aversion to brown and orange comes from being young in the 1970's!
Hadn't thought of that, Christine. There was an awful lot of it around then. Luckily, my school uniform was black blazer, grey skirt, white shirt and red and black tie in the winter and, joy of joys, a red and white candy stripe cotton dress in summer, hitched up to an almost indecent level by a broad white money belt!! Those were the days! >:D
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Oh Linda I just don't believe it! My school summer dress was also red & white candy stripes! It's scarily spooky & it tickles the hell out of me :laugh: Love it!
My ham sarnie is calling me :-H
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Spooky, Pen! I am also having a ham sarnie for lunch - just ham and mustard today on thick crusty white bread and a large cup of Westmorland Blend coffee. >:D
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Maybe it's just my eyes, but the 'new' tabs still seem to be horribly maroon?! I was hoping for a nice 'motor car' red! :-C
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Not your eyes Linda! They are still horribly maroon! We need to speak nicely to Alan & hope he can change them to a lovely shade of red :)
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That's very interesting Stanley. It's something I've wondered about & also how do you know you're colour blind as you probably think what you see is normal. Presumably it possible that somebody who is colour blind may not know if the tomatoes are ripe or not.
My elder brother is colour blind as was a maternal uncle, so it wasn't surprising. For me, I knew from a very young age that I had to use blue for sky and sea and green for grass and trees. My primary school blue pencil was on the end of the red and the green was separate. Paint tubes had their colour on them. Red/green is not a problem for me so when tomatoes turn from blue to red they are ripe and I go through blue or green traffic lights!
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Thanks Stanley. I hadn't realised that colour blindness is hereditary. If I'd engaged brain then of course it makes sense! My sister & I both had a lazy eye. We both had an operation when we were about 2 or 3 years old. Hers was a success but mine failed. Once you get to about 9 then there's nowt that can be done about it so I've had to live with it. It can be quite frustrating when I talk to people & they look over their shoulder.
It turned out that we inherited this from my Mum's brother.
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I've upgraded the site to try to solve both issues raised in this thread: the colour of the "new" icon (easy); and the premature submission of words on a touch screen (not so easy).
Upgrades can take a day or two to appear on your device. This seems to be especially the case with mobile devices. If the "new" icons are a cheery red, with no grey border around them, you're running the new version.
Roddles, and anyone else who's been having problems on a touch screen, please let me know if things have improved.
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I'm pleased to report that my tabs are a cheery cherryish red with no grey border!! I'm so easily pleased! >:D
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Noice! And they match the other reds. I'm all for uniformity!
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Yes, Alan, the slight delay in the appearance of the green arrow seems to have done the trick with my premature submission.
We have noticed a slight oddity in the 7-by though that has only just started to appear. Every so often when we touch one of the circled letters in the cross, the circle, with the letter, jumps up into the submission text box area. It can then be selected and slide back into its correct position. Generally it is the letter in the 7 o'clock position that does it. But sometimes other ones. It's an oddity rather than a problem and I've been waiting to see if anybody else mentioned it. But we have seen it happen on two different touch devices now.
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Ah. Jumped the gun. I see that the other problem I mentioned is being discussed in another thread.
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What's the hex code for that shade of red? Might use it myself in a future JavaScript project! :)
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It's #BB3333.