Pentominoes

Instructions for the finished applet

Play pentominoes

Project
Evolution

• [1] First there's a simple moving square.
• [2] Then there's selecting a square.
• [3] ...and automatic deselection.
• [4] ...and dragging.
• [5] ...better dragging.
• [6] Dragables stay inside the applet.
  We didn't need threads after all.
• [7] Moving a cluster of boxes.
• [8] Working on buffering for painting.
• [9] Make that triple buffering.
• [a] Flip and Rotate!
• [b] Tentative grid.
• [c] ...better grid...
• [d] ...smarter grid...
• [e] Basic operations finished.
• [f] Major code clean-up, plus a few enhancements.
• [g] Ongoing fixup effort...
• [h] API deprecation and button fix.
• [i] Buttons brought up to Java 1.1
• [j] Mouse event handling brought up to Java 1.1

• Put buttons in a separate panel to keep pieces away from them.
• Put text solution in a real window, not in the Java console (or stdout).
• Put pictures on the buttons instead of text.