From 08781119281c4c144ba167e87476429b0aae20b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: simon <simon@cda61777-01e9-0310-a592-d414129be87e>
Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 12:24:31 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Neat idea from Gareth: if you put a % on the end of the mine
 count in the Custom dialog box, it'll treat it as a mine density.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.tartarus.org/sgt/puzzles@5861 cda61777-01e9-0310-a592-d414129be87e
---
 mines.c     |  2 ++
 puzzles.but | 12 +++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mines.c b/mines.c
index 3c06b53..db98cc9 100644
--- a/mines.c
+++ b/mines.c
@@ -232,6 +232,8 @@ static game_params *custom_params(config_item *cfg)
     ret->w = atoi(cfg[0].sval);
     ret->h = atoi(cfg[1].sval);
     ret->n = atoi(cfg[2].sval);
+    if (strchr(cfg[2].sval, '%'))
+	ret->n = ret->n * (ret->w * ret->h) / 100;
     ret->unique = cfg[3].ival;
 
     return ret;
diff --git a/puzzles.but b/puzzles.but
index e1f6681..d158bc4 100644
--- a/puzzles.but
+++ b/puzzles.but
@@ -891,7 +891,17 @@ menu are:
 
 \dt \e{Mines}
 
-\dd Number of mines in the grid.
+\dd Number of mines in the grid. You can enter this as an absolute
+mine count, or alternatively you can put a \cw{%} sign on the end in
+which case the game will arrange for that proportion of the squares
+in the grid to be mines.
+
+\lcont{
+
+Beware of setting the mine count too high. At very high densities,
+the program may spend forever searching for a solvable grid.
+
+}
 
 \dt \e{Ensure solubility}
 
-- 
2.11.0