The main attraction from user perspective is Beginner/Intermediate/Expert modes: the filed size and count of mines is different. Please note that in this version switching to Intermediate/Expert mode is very slow - will look into it.

If you click on the PannonRex name, it will take you to this blog showing all topics related to Sweeper, so it is a nice shorthand to check out any news AND post your comments.

For developers the interesting news is that the mode change is implemented by deleting all the old cell controls (Images) and re-creating them. The re-creation takes way too long at the moment, I’ll see what can be done (CreateDOM seems to be the bottleneck). I already did some code optimization in GetField() (instead of a linear search I simply compute the index of the control; quite a speed deamon) and in other areas.

Planned:

• I will fine tune the horizontal alignment of controls so that all of them are centered, based on the size of the filed. I had a first try, but run into some mfkIssues ;-)

• Long processes block the UI from updating, and even animated GIFs are suspended (at least in IE). Will look into giving some hartbeat to the UI. If anyone has any idea how, please let me know.