More updates to the Bingo Card Generator

[magibrain]

Hallo, all! I'm the one who's been coding the Bingo Card Generator over at http://an.owomoyela.net/fun/bingo_generator , and I thought I'd drop in and let you know of some new features.

• A longstanding bug with the Aarne-Thompson Fairytale Classifications list has been resolved, meaning that now you can use that list in conjunction with other lists, and it will select values from the whole Aarne-Thompson list and not just the first 852 or so.
• Background color, text color, and border color are now all customizable, with a popup color picker. You should be able to specify any color you'd like for any of these values, and if all the JavaScript is working correctly, you'll be able to see how it looks in an example square before selecting it.
• You can now generate 3x3 and 7x7 cards.

I'm hoping to add in an option to toggle the free space on and off soon, as well as adding 2x2, 4x4, and 6x6 generators. (The even square generators, for reasons having to do with code architecture, need the free space toggle to be implemented before they can be added in.)

Anyway, let me know if you see anything going wildly wrong! And if there are features you'd really like to see, let me know. I can't promise to implement them all, but I know that people may begin using this in ways I didn't anticipate, and it's be cool to support those uses as much as is practical. :)

–magi

[Update] Just added in some center-space customization!

Comments

Re: Hmm...

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> And it would probably not be terribly kind to people who wanted to edit the items included on each list before limiting them; that is, selecting a maximum of x prompts would have to select them from the entire list, not any subset of the list, unless I wanted to hugely redo the code architecture. <<

I think the most efficient way would be to edit the list *after* trimming it. Say you pick 4 lists. The program cuts them all down to 10 prompts. You edit out 4 you don't want. Then you push the button and get a card.

Having a toggle on/off for the weighting feature would give people a choice. So if the editing is harder to do, or impossible, with the Equalize Weight option on, people still have the unequal option if they want to edit the lists a lot.

>> Still, it's an idea I can play around with. <<

Yay! I can usually frame my ideas in computer concepts. I am less good at guessing what is doable at this level of technology, let alone what is easy.