Chapter 6. Interface Overview

Opens a dialog which allows you to create a puzzle from an image on your disk. See the corresponding section for details and also special concerns, if you are going to create a puzzle with 300 or more pieces.

When you have received a Palapeli puzzle file (which can usually be recognized by the file extension .puzzle), you can use this action to import it into your local collection. Puzzle files can also be played by simply clicking on them in the file manager of your choice, but after the import, the puzzle will appear in your local collection, and you can safely delete the downloaded puzzle file.

This will export the currently selected puzzles to files, in order to enable you to give them to your friends, publish them on the web, or make backup copies of your collection.

Any puzzles that you have selected in the puzzle list, will be permanently deleted from your collection.

Re-shuffle all the pieces and discard the saved progress for the current puzzle.

Quit the Palapeli.

Create a temporary holder for storing or sorting pieces. See Using piece-holders for details of how to use a holder.

Delete a selected temporary holder when it is empty.

Select all pieces in the currently selected piece-holder (outlined in blue).

Rearrange selected pieces in any holder or the puzzle table by packing them into a grid.

Go back to the collection to choose another puzzle. Can be used only when you are solving a puzzle.

Toggle the display of the completed puzzle preview image. Hover it with the mouse pointer to zoom in the image.

Increase the scale.

Decrease the scale.

Allows you to enable all messages disabled by checking the Do not show this message again option in the Palapeli confirmation dialogs.

Toggle the display of the progress bar and buttons below the puzzle table. This action will change nothing in the puzzle collection.

Open a game configuration dialog. See Game Configuration section for more details.