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Handy IronSudoku Bookmarklets

December 19th, 2007 by bill · 2 Comments

»Instead of using copy-paste to use the Javascript IronSudoku bookmarklets detailed here earlier, create bookmarklets for them.

IronSudoku Javascript Bookmarketlets

We’ve covered IronSudoku here at Brittlefish and spent some time with autofill scripts to automate the tedious task of filling in green and red notional numbers. We got them to work in IE6 after some Javascript wrangling.

Bookmarklets

Bookmarklets are link buttons you add to your browser where the URL is some Javascript code. So instead of hunting around for the autofill Javascript, you can just click the autofill button when you’re at the IronSudoku site.

In Firefox, you can just left-click and drag the links to your bookmark toolbar.

In IE, you will need to right-click the link, then click “Bookmark This Link…”, then add it to the Links category to put it on the Links toolbar.

GRAutofillGreen + Red Autofill will automatically fill in greens and reds for the possible numbers in each square. Reds are used to indicate where a given number in a 3×3 sub-grid can exist in only one or two locations.

GAutofillGreen Autofill will automatically fill in greens for possible numbers in each square.

ClearNotesClear Notes will erase the greens and reds from each square. Good for starting over if you’re manually entering the numbers, or if you’ve been modifying autofilled numbers manually and make a mistake.

RowHintRowHint will ask which row you want, display the answer for that row in a message box.

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2 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Irv Feinglass // Mar 5, 2008 at 10:16 am

    where is the actual script for Row Hint?

  • 2 bill // Mar 6, 2008 at 12:12 am

    @Irv - you can either copy the RowHint javascript (that’s the URL behind the link above) and paste it into your browser’s address field and hit enter; or drag the RowHint link to the Bookmarks toolbar in Firefox or, in IE, right click and “add to favorites…”

    If you mean where is the actual javascript code for RowHint, it’s loaded from this site and executed by the bookmarklet via script injection.

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