How to set SUDOKUKI_BROWSER on MS-Windows?

[Sylvain Vedrenne]

Here is a message I received from an anonymous user:

"Love game thankyou.
How do i set the enviroment variable sudokuki neeeds so i can export / print
to HTML ?
Under preferences printing i get this message -

At the moment, SUDOKUKI_BROWSER is not set.
This environment variable allows you to select
which HTML browser to use for printing grids.
It is useful if your browser is not detected
automatically.
Would you need any help, don't hesitate to ask
on the Sudokuki forums:
http://sudokuki.sourceforge.net/
"

[Sylvain Vedrenne]

More info from the anonymous user:
"
Im using window XP MCE
firefox v3.6.12
"

[Sylvain Vedrenne]

Here's my answer:

Go to MS-Windows' Control Panel and in the
System tab, add a new User Variable called SUDOKUKI_BROWSER. Give this
variable a value like "C:\Program Files......\firefox.exe" with the
correct path to Firefox.exe for your PC.

I hope this helps.
If you need more assistance, please post it here if you can, otherwise you can
write to my private email adress.

Sylvain

[taa]

Hello

The proper path to add the system variable in windows XP is

FYI i rebooted to be sure the new system variable was used properly, but im
not sure if rebooting is required or not , do it to be sure :)

As a side note sudokuki does now report my browser is set to firefox, and
shows the file path properly. ( under > > )

The next problem is -

clicking > does nothing .

Ps i do have a printer installed but not plugged in.
I was expecting to see a HTML version of the sudokuki puzzle to show up in my
browser window & ready to be printed if desired .
Or at least to see my browser window pop open with the printer interface box
open ? .

What should i expect to happen when i click > ? (CTRL+P) ?

[Sylvain Vedrenne]

Hi John324,

I was expecting to see a HTML version of the sudokuki puzzle
to show up in my browser window & ready to be printed if desired

Yes, that's exactly what should happen.

I'd suggest you to try this in a cmd.exe console window:
%SUDOKUKI_BROWSER%
I don't have a MS-Windows environment at hand, but I expect this should launch
Firefox.

If it doesn't work, please check the value of the variable again, by printing
it in the console window:
echo %SUDOKUKI_BROWSER%
Be careful with spaces that could be in the path to your browser, they have to
be replaced by a special string to work in the environment variable.

Please update the Forum according to the outcome of these attempts.
Thanks for your post.

Sylvain

[taa]

Ok so using a cmd window and entering "echo %SUDOKUKI_BROWSER% " ( minus the
quotes )

it returns to me "F:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" ( minus the
quotes )
the proper path to my firefox browser.

But when i run the "%SUDOKUKI_BROWSER%" command i get a whole different reply
saying "F:\Program" is not a recognized command.

So the spaces are a problem maybe... so i put the variable in qoutes like this
"F:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"

now when i run %SUDOKUKI_BROWSER% it does open a firefox browser window.

Your program still does nothing when i click "print".

Also none that none of the other windows system variables have their values in
quotes , and they all work fine & have spaces in them and some even point to
F:\Program Files**** .

I'm suspecting it's not windows use of the variable, but your program is using
it wrong... ?

[Sylvain Vedrenne]

Thank you John324 for the details.

Mmm, yes it could be a bug inside Sudokuki, maybe I didn't test using spaces
in the path to the browser, I don't remember. But I'm sure showing the grid in
a browser was tested and works. (Then you print from the browser itself).

All I can suggest you at the moment is to try moving Firefox to - for example
- F:\Programs..... (so without spaces) to see if it works. Please let me know
the result. It should work.

And feel free to file a bug anyway about "the spaces problem". It will be
fixed, though I can't tell you when yet.

Cheers,
Sylvain

[taa]

I instead used my portable-apps version of firefox http://portableapps.com/ap
ps/internet/firefox_portable to test sudokuki, because its installed to a path with no spaces in
it, i updated the system variable its path & rebooted .

No.. go, the problem seems to be something else, or more than spaces in the
path... sudokuki still doesn't interact with firefox..

[Sylvain Vedrenne]

Hi John324

It wont work if you set SUDOKUKI_BROWSER to a path accross the network such as
"http://......".
To operate, SUDOKUKI_BROWSER needs to be set to a local path on your PC.

If you could try copying the whole Mozilla Firefox directory (just for the
test) to F:......\Firefox\, that would be very helpful.
By the way, is F:\ a normal drive or something special?
And are you running the normal release 1.0 of Sudokuki, the one packaged for
MS-Windows ?

Thanks.

Sylvain

[taa]

yes im using release v1.0 .

drive f:\ is a local harddisk partition and is where my widows is install.

i copied my firefox directory to f:\firefox & set the SUDOKUKI_BROWSER
variable to F:\firefox\firefox.exe .

rebooted and retested... still didn't work ! .

and yes i also loaded firefox from that directory to be sure it worked.

i also retested echo %SUDOKUKI_BROWSER% and ran %SUDOKUKI_BROWSER% and it did
open a firefox window.

[Sylvain Vedrenne]

Mmm...maybe an issue with the \, maybe replacing them with \ will work around
the problem.

But still there is a bug because running your browser (local on the PC) using
%SUDOKUKI_BROWSER% from a terminal with success should mean Sudokuki can
launch it too.

A last chance workaround for you would be to search for the sudokuki.html file
(not sure of the name but it is a .html file) in your temporary directory and
open it manually in Firefox to print it.

Thank again for reporting the issue, and feel free to open a bug on
Sourceforge->Sudokuki->Tracker->Bug.

[taa]

yeah i searched windows temp file & found the file F:\Documents and
Settings\Friends\Local Settings\Temp\sudokuki.html

Loaded it, and it looks proper..

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html><head><title>Sudokuki</title>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<meta http-equiv="expires" content="0">
<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no">
<meta name="resource-type" content="document">
<meta name="distribution" content="global">
<meta name="author" content="Sylvain Vedrenne">
<meta name="copyright" content="Copyright (c) 2008-2009 Sudokuki development team">
<meta name="keywords" content="Sudoku Sudokuki GNU GPL Free Software">
<meta name="description" content="Play Sudokuki, essential Sudoku game. Sudokuki is GNU/GPL free software.">
<meta name="robots" content="index, follow">
<meta name="revisit-after" content="1 days">

<style type="text/css">

table.square {
  border-right:1px solid #000000;
  border-left:0px solid #000000;
  border-top:0px solid #000000;
  border-bottom:1px solid #000000;
}

div.cell {
        width:25px;
        height:25px;
        border-right:1px solid #000000;
        border-left:0px solid #000000;
        border-top:0px solid #000000;
        border-bottom:1px solid #000000;
        background-color: #FFFFFF;
        text-align: center;
        vertical-align : middle;
        font-size:20px;
        text-decoration:none;
}

</style>
</head>

<body>

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="620" style="background: #ffffff;">
<tbody>
<tr bgcolor="#ffffff" valign="top">
<td align="center" width="320">
<br>

<h2>Sudokuki</h2>

<table class="sudoku" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" frame="border" border="0" style="border-top:3px solid #000000; border-bottom:1px solid #000000; border-left:3px solid #000000; border-right:1px solid #000000;">
<tbody>

<tr>
<td>
<table class="square" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
<td><div class="cell">6</div></td>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div class="cell">1</div></td>

<td><div class="cell">8</div></td>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
<td>
<table class="square" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
<td><div class="cell">2</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>

<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div class="cell">6</div></td>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
<td>
<table class="square" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tbody>
<tr>

<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
<td><div class="cell">3</div></td>
<td><div class="cell">5</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div class="cell">1</div></td>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
<td><div class="cell">9</div></td>
<td><div class="cell">4</div></td>

</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<table class="square" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
<td><div class="cell">4</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div class="cell">7</div></td>

<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
<td><div class="cell">9</div></td>
<td><div class="cell">2</div></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
<td>
<table class="square" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tbody>
<tr>

<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
<td><div class="cell">1</div></td>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div class="cell">5</div></td>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
</tr>
</tbody>

</table>
</td>
<td>
<table class="square" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><div class="cell">8</div></td>
<td><div class="cell">5</div></td>
<td><div class="cell">6</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>

</tr>
<tr>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<table class="square" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
<td><div class="cell">2</div></td>

<td><div class="cell">6</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
<td>

<table class="square" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
<td><div class="cell">9</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
<td><div class="cell">5</div></td>

</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
<td>
<table class="square" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><div class="cell">3</div></td>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>

</tr>
<tr>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
<td><div class="cell">7</div></td>
<td><div class="cell"></div></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>

</tbody>
</table>

<br>
[url]http://sudokuki.sourceforge.net/[/url]

</table>
</html>

[Sylvain Vedrenne]

Here is the bug report - ID: 3152527

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3152527&group_id=18
0199&atid=892215

[Sylvain Vedrenne]

This issue will be fixed in the 1.1.x versions. The fix is already
available in the 1.1 Alpha versions.

/
In fact the SUDOKUKI_BROWSER variable does not exist anymore in Sudokuki 1.1 (completely rewritten in Java).
*/

For example, use the following Alpha version to be able to print the grid
more easily:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/sudokuki/files/sudokuki/1.1/Alpha/sudokuki_1
0A13.zip

Sudokuki 1.1 is still in development. At the moment these lines are
written, only Alpha versions of Sudokuki 1.1 are available, with limited
functionnality and a small subset of features. Your feedback is important.
Please let me know what you are observing, what you like, what you dislike,
etc.

[taa]

The first issue is the zip file contains a "how_to_run**" file with no ".txt"
extension.. that will stop a lot of people from reading it if they don't know
how to read it.

Second i tried to run the .sh file.. my computer reported "java is not
recognized as a command or program".
I went to java.com, installed the downloaded java .
rebooted.. my computeer still reports the same result trying the .sh and the
command line .jar file .

[taa]

I got my java fixed.. i had to uninstall and then download the offline install
version, that fixed it.

So running the .jar file worked fine.. looking good so far..

Any chance of having HTML output as some time ?

[Sylvain Vedrenne]

Hi John324,

Thanks for your comments.

• Issue 1:
  HOW_TO_RUN_SUDOKUKI has been renamed to HOW_TO_RUN_SUDOKUKI.txt to avoid the
  problem you described. Thanks.
  => FIXED

• Issue 2:
  You're right. sudokuki.sh has to be fixed to avoid a new user a bad first
  impression.
  => TODO

Now about your suggestion to have HTML output:
- Personnaly I don't see why this would be useful since the Print action is now operating directly to the available printers. But you are the user, you know why you'd like this feature, so if you think it's useful, ask for it and I'll probably do it.
=> So please file a feature request.

Cheers,
Sylvain

[taa]

No , your right.. don't know why HTML would be of use really...