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WordSearch is a word puzzle/game, as its name implies, that lets the player look for hidden words in a board. The words are given/known to the player which makes the game a bit easier to deal with, provided the board size is not that big to explore at and there are fewer words to search for. VB 6.0 was used to develop the game's front-end application and MYSQL facilitated its back-end for storing data such as the words used to create new puzzles and game sessions .

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Submitted byOelasoron Wed, 07/18/2012 - 10:53

The MySQL database server must be properly setup first for the application to run smoothly. You can download the MySQL Community Server 5.1.63 @ http://www.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.1.html#downloads, the Connector/ODBC 5.1.11 @ http://www.mysql.com/downloads/connector/odbc/ and the MySQL Workbench 5.2.40 @ http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/workbench/. When done installing all the MySQL software, configure the MySQL server and set the password to "ok" for the root user. Here's how: 1. Go to Start> MySQL> MySQL 5.1> MySQL Server Instance Config Wizard. 2. Just click the Next button several times until you are at the networking options page. Just leave the default Port number (3306) and tick the add firewall exception for this port. 3. Continue clicking the Next button until you are at the security options page. Enter the root password "ok" (I have hardcoded this in the program). Once again, click the Next button to continue. 4. At the execution page, click the Execute button and wait for the configuration process to finish and finally click the Finish button. Assuming we have successfully configured our server, the next thing for us to do is to install/restore our database. Here's how: 1. Click Start> MySQL> MySQL WorkBench 5.2 CE. 2. Under the Server Administration panel, click the Server Administration. 3. On the Task and Object Browser pane, under the DATA EXPORT / RESTORE, click the Data Import/Restore. 4. On the Data Import/Restore window, click the Import from Disk tab. Tick the Import from Self-Contained File option and select the SQL file (WSTables.sql, this can be found inside the WordSearch folder) to import. Click the <...> button opposite to the File Path textbox entry to browse for the said file. 5. Click the Start Import button to start importing/restoring the database. Try to run the application again. Just let me know if there are some things that need clarifications or elaborations. :) Happy word searching...
Submitted byOelasoron Fri, 07/20/2012 - 12:49

It seems the data server setup is huge thus discouraging. I will be revising the program to use disk files instead of a database server to create, save and load puzzle data. By the way, if ever you find some bugs in the program, please let me know. My email address is [email protected]. Thank you once again...

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