Clear Button for Stargazing

lightblood • 8 October 2015 at 11:38 AM

I hit the wrong two dots by accident and with no "clear" button, I was forced to get the answer wrong because it is impossible to correct the mistake after you place it. Even if no clear button, or undo last move, can be implemented, putting a warning saying that each line is FINAL would be nice so everyone knows that whatever they do has to be correct or else he/she cannot change it, so if it not correct, you can't change that.

lenamilove • 8 October 2015 at 11:46 AM

@lightblood There is an undo, if you press escape. I agree that a button would be easier though, as the esc. button doesn't work for me on Safari.

lightblood • 8 October 2015 at 11:55 AM

@lenamilove
Yeah, you can also refresh the screen but it takes forever to refresh a page for me at school. It is set up weirdly so that it makes it hard for mobile and sometimes the older computers :/

lenamilove • 8 October 2015 at 11:59 AM

@lightblood Very hard on mobile, I'd agree. I'm not quite sure why it's so specific to newer browsers/computers... It seems straightforward enough to not take too much computing power, just lines and dots..

Either way, I'm not a programmer, but a clear button would make it much easier to play successfully.

lightblood • 8 October 2015 at 12:05 PM

@lenamilove
I am a programmer actually *smiles* A clear button would just remove any modifications, which would make it a lot easier and faster.

I think they used codes that only the newer browsers can understand, because not all aspects of a code can be supported or read on every browser. For example, you can't do a gradient background (like from black to white, transitioning) in Internet Explorer. Hence the support only in newer browsers to be able to see everything correctly.

lenamilove • 8 October 2015 at 12:11 PM

@lightblood Ah, I see. Well if a clear button is so simple, then I can't see why they wouldn't implement it. It would also shorten the time for someone to fix their mistakes, and then give them more leeway to make a higher score.

I'm sure they wouldn't completely change Stargazing at this point, but it would be nice if that coding could be just a little "simplified" for other, older devices/computers? Again, I'm not sure how difficult that would be, or if there are enough people with the same problem to evoke any change.

(Respect to you for being a programmer, I can't wrap my head around all that. Also, nice magic lag double post.)

dream-within-a-dream • 8 October 2015 at 1:06 PM

@lightblood ... Cant you just refresh the page? o: Read the rules, you can and it'll let you start over, clear the page. 😊

~~ Edit: Never mind haha! XD ❤️ I'm just interrupting, sorry! D:

lightblood • 8 October 2015 at 4:43 PM

@lenamilove
It's not exactly simple, but it shouldn't be terribly hard either.

I think simplifying it would be a challenge, though, it all depends on how this was made. (Yeah, it takes patience.)

@dream-within-a-dream
The page already takes forever to load and my wifi connection isn't the strongest. It's weird how slow the site has gotten since the start of this, though. And who reads the rules? Pft.

dream-within-a-dream • 8 October 2015 at 4:46 PM

@lightblood Haha! XD ❤️ I read rules. ;~; XD