show stored puzzle attempts

[bradzo]

Hi folks
Not an issue, but PR's don't seem to be looked at - hope this helps.
Tell me if I'm doing this wrong - very new to GH. Just want to share my solution.

Have been working on this over last couple of days, and needed a way to show the attempts made on the puzzle.

If you paste this function into the puzInit var, as the puzzle is generated, it'll fill in the user's attempts.

    showAttempts: function() {
    
	    //console.log("entries",entries);		// co-ords of cell - col,row, ["1,1", "2,1", "3,1", "4,1"]
    
	    for (var x=1, p = entryCount; x <= p; ++x) {
		    //var letters = puzz.data[x-1].answer.split('');
		    var attempt = puzz.data[x-1].attempt.split('');		// retrieved user's attempt - useful when rebuilding puzzle with user attempts
		    console.log(attempt);
    
		    console.log("entries["+(x-1)+"]",entries[x-1]);		// co-ords of cell - col,row, ["1,1", "2,1", "3,1", "4,1"]
    
		    var y = 0;
		    for (var i=0; i < entries[x-1].length; ++i) {
			    var selector =  '.position-' + (x-1) + ' input';
			    //console.log(selector);
			    
			    var co = entries[x-1][i].split(",");
			    console.log("co:",co);
    
			    var c0 = co[0];
			    var c1 = co[1];
			    var r = 0;
			    if(c0>=c1) {
				    r = c0;
				    // try to normalise what we have
				    // col value appears first, and 
				    // has the column value of the <td> element across the row
				    // to target it properly, if it's at say, col 6 (and its the 1st letter position of the word),
				    // we need to force it back to 1
				    var t1 = r;		// could be 6
				    var t2 = t1 - 1;	// whatever value is one less ie: 5
				    var t3 = (t1 - t2) + y;	// ie: 6 - 5 = 1
				    y++;
				    r = t3;
											    
			    } else {
				    r = co[1];
			    }
    
			    console.log("r:",r,"t1:",t1, "t2:",t2, "t3:",t3,"attempt[r-1]",attempt[r-1],"attempt[t3-1]",attempt[t3-1]);	
    
				    
				    $(selector)[r-1].value = attempt[r-1];
			    
		    }
	    }
    
    },

This bit:

var attempt = puzz.data[x-1].attempt.split('');		// retrieved user's attempt - useful when rebuilding puzzle with user attempts
						console.log(attempt);

requires that a key in the json puzzleData variable called "attempt" have the users attempt at this clue.

So, for example:

    var puzzleData = [
        {
            clue: "my first name",
            answer: "brad",
            attempt: "blah",
            position: 1,
            orientation: "across",
            startx: 1,
            starty: 1
        },
        {
            clue: "my wife's first name",
            answer: "nottellingyou",
            attempt: "abcdefghijklm",
            position: 2,
            orientation: "across",
            startx: 6,
            starty: 1
        },
        {
            clue: "opposite of above",
            answer: "below",
            attempt: "below",
            position: 1,
            orientation: "down",
            startx: 1,
            starty: 1
        },
    
    ] 

Oh! One last thing:
In var puzInit = {, right at the bottom, add puzInit.showAttempts() as below:

	puzInit.buildTable();
	puzInit.buildEntries();
	puzInit.showAttempts();

If you edit the puzzle data in this repo and add a key called "attempt" with some value in each json entry, give it a whirl! It worked for me.

Hope this helps!