Picross Touch Helper

Description
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Features
System requirements
How to start
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Description

This is a helper app for the Game "Picross Touch" on Steam. Or rather, for the Community (Workshop) puzzles. Default puzzles are not supported but they are very easy anyway
If you ever spent hours stuck on a big puzzle just to realize you did something wrong but can't figure out where, you know where the drive to make this came from.
I made this mainly for myself, don't expect too much in the ways of support, and if the game decides to change the save file structure or change the workshop levels structure (again), it will no longer work.

It will alos not work on very old workshop levels. They were not saved the same way and I'm too lazy to implement ye olde way.

It will only work on windows. May work in wine on linux, but the game saves it's states in the registry so I don't know if it will.

Be aware it's only for in-progress puzzles.

Note: As this needs the Steamworks API and uses the APP-ID of the example application, a game named "Spacewar" will appear in your steam library. Don't worry, won't cost you anything and doesn't actually download anything and you can just uninstall or hide it. More info here

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Screenshots

GUI Picross Touch Helper - Show Errors

GUI Picross Touch Helper - Show Solution

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Features

Shows the current state of your puzzle
Marks any cell wrongfully marked as "empty" or "filled"
Shows the solution to the puzzle

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System requirements

Java version 17 or newer. You can check if you have it using this command line command (Windows: Start->run->cmd):

java -version

If you get nothing or if it's telling you that it doesn't know the command "java", you probably don't have java. If you get something, it should look like this:

openjdk version "17.0.7" 2023-04-18

If the number is 17 or larger, Picross Touch Helper should run.

If you don't have Java or an old version, you can download the newest one at "Download".

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How to start

If everything works, you can just double-click the jar file, but sometimes a compressing software like WinZip graps this file extension.
If that happens, take a look at Jarfix or use the run.bat

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