Rufaswap is a simple permuted picture puzzle app where the challenge is to restore the picture pieces to their proper place. Two pieces are selected with cursor clicks to initiate a swap. User controls the level of difficulty by choosing the number of slices, and whether even or irregular slices. You can add and use any PNG file.
The proper command to extract the archive and maintain the directory structure is "7z x filename".
# RufaSwap
**ver 2.6.8 -- 7oct23**
* resumed support for OSX, but without a bundle and without using Xcode.
### See full revision history at end of file
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## Rufaswap
Rufaswap is a simple permuted picture puzzle app where the challenge is to restore the picture elements to their proper place. Two elements are selected with cursor clicks to initiate a swap. User controls the level of difficulty by choosing the number of slices.
It uses GLFW, a thin OpenGL binding from "Lumen", a PNG reader for Ada by Stephen Sanguine, and OpenAL audio.
Works on desktops & laptops running windows or Linux.
Simply unzip and run. If the binary executables do not run on your system then follow the build instructions below.
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* Uses GLFW;
* Works on HiDpi displays;
* Uses OpenAL for sound;
* all runtime files are in ./data/
* several png files are provided in ./pix/
* you can use your own png files;
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## Run Requirements:
* graphics card/driver that supports OpenGL version 3.3 or later;
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## Setup & Running:
Unzip the archive.
Open a commandline terminal, and cd to the install directory.
At the command line, type the executable name to start the game.
Windows users type "rufaswap.bat" from the install directory.
Linux users may also double click the icon of rufaswap_gnu in file manager.
Mac users note that this game may be initiated in two ways, also. First, by opening a terminal, navigating to the install_directory, and typing rufaswap_osx on the command line. Second by navigating to the installation directory in Finder and clicking the "rufaswap.app" icon named "RufasSwap".
The install_directory should contain subdirectories named "data", "libs", "pix".
To swap two blocks, click the cursor on them. The first selection is highlighted, whence you may either click it again to deselect, or click another to swap.
Press (n) or (p) to go to the Next or Previous picture;
Press (m) or (f) to make puzzle harder or easier [More or Fewer slices];
Press (u) to toggle uneven [harder] partitions;
Press (esc) to quit.
Note that you can use your own pictures if they are png-format files, although several photos taken by the author are included.
Please send questions, comments or corrections to fastrgv@gmail.com
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## rufaswap is covered by the GNU GPL v3 license:
Copyright (C) 2015 <fastrgv@gmail.com>
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 3 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.
You may read the full text of the GNU General Public License
at <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
## Media Files for rufaswap:
### General Note
The particular choices of sound files delivered are not essential to the function of the game and are easily replaced. This software is primarily intended as a tutorial example of modern OpenGL methods. The only requirements are that sounds be in WAV format.
### SoundFiles
...are from freesound.org and are covered by the Creative Commons Attribution noncommercial license documented in the accompanying file creativeCommons.txt.
### ImageFiles (*.png)
For text-textures were created using gimp and are covered by the GNU GPL v3 license. Likewise for other photo images, all of which were taken by the author.
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## Prior Revision History:
**4jan17 v2.3.5**
* Updated to use new SFML libs.
* Corrected a duplicate window glitch.
* Refined compiler scripts.
**30dec16 v2.3.4**
* Improved linux build system to be compatible with more linux distros.
* Improved OpenGL coding to run even on embedded graphics hardware.
**10dec16 v2.3.3**
* Added interesting new (u)-key option to toggle uneven random partitions.
**02jul16 v2.3.2**
* Updated to use ada-intrinsic pseudo-random numbers, including a time dependent randomization so each run is different.
* Improved snd4ada.cpp, whoosh sound.
**12apr16 v2.3.1**
* Important library update for Gnu/Linux users on 27% of distros that do not provide FLAC, ogg, vorbis libraries. Missing softlinks caused run failure. That is now fixed.
**19feb16 v2.3**
* Added Mac binary bundle that acts much more like a typical Mac App. This app is delivered in the installation directory, but could be moved elsewhere, such as your personal Applications directory [and initiated with a click]. Note that there are some soft [symbolic] links in the bundle that are resolved automatically when copied with the command "cp -r rufaswap.app destination-directory".
* Generalized utex package.
* Improved help screen.
**29nov15 v2.2**
* Improved PNG loader procedure that handles either RGBA or RGB image files for textures. This means most of your own PNG images should work. Thusly, it now works with all of the pictures delivered.
**20nov15 v2.1**
* initial rewrite in the Ada language of its c++ predecessor.
* this version does not yet handle RGB images, as did the c++ predecessor.
