Message #4147

From: Roice Nelson <roice3@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [MC4D] Macro Reference Stickers
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2018 17:25:37 -0500

I had the thought that it would be easy to have MC4D support highlighting
the original reference stickers, so I added a feature request for that.

https://github.com/cutelyaware/magiccube4d/issues/132

Roice

On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 3:21 PM Roice Nelson <roice3@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just peeked at the relevant MC4D code
> <https://github.com/cutelyaware/magiccube4d/blob/188d2e45ef62bacdd2f0c991b2d2a329a2d96395/src/com/superliminal/magiccube4d/Macro.java#L165> to
> see what is saved out, and unfortunately, there is not an easy way to map
> what is in the macro file to stickers on the screen. There is a section in
> parenthesis that starts with g (for "grip") that has the reference clicks,
> e.g.
>
> (g 4 5 7)
>
> The integers that follow are the internal IDs of the grips (not exactly
> one-to-one with stickers). Those IDs
> <https://github.com/cutelyaware/magiccube4d/blob/188d2e45ef62bacdd2f0c991b2d2a329a2d96395/src/com/superliminal/magiccube4d/PolytopePuzzleDescription.java#L1152>
> are a number dependent on how the slicer carved up the particular puzzle
> and not easily decipherable to a human.
>
> If you tend to use the same reference stickers for your macros, you could
> write out some test macro files with what you suspect you used and compare
> indices. That’s the best option I could think of here.
>
> Roice
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 10:00 AM act@energeticeinsteins.com [4D_Cubing] <
> 4D_Cubing@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Hey all, haven’t done a solve in quite a little while and I don’t
>> remember the reference stickers for about half of my macros. Does anyone
>> know if there is a way to look into the macro file to determine what my
>> reference stickers are? Thanks
>>
>>
>>
>>
>