Stack Trainer Hack 3.6

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Description

This addresses those who know: Aronson, Tamariz, Nikolas etc. If you know what these names relate to, and you apply the according techniques then this app may be yours.

A radical slim design.

Cycle through the logical phases of the challenges at hand. Name it the virtual spectator concept.

Approaches:
- Next Card: Name the next card
- Get Position: Name the position of a given card
- Get Card: Name the card at a given position
- Four of a Kind: Name the distance to the next of the same kind
- Next Suit: Name the distance to the next of the same suit
- Wrong Card: Identify the one card that is displaced in the face-up spread stack
- Missing Card: Find the missing card in the face-up spread stack
- Spot: Spot a specific card in the face-up spread stack
- Highest Card: Identify the high and low cards of a random sub-stack.

Some Features:
- Aronson, Tamariz and user defined stacks
- Lorrayne's peg words for the 52 cards and 52 positions, plus 3 user defined sets
- display and whisper modes
- includes the quick-touch interactive analyzer visualizing the solution path and allowing for self imposed problem statements. Decadic and tridecadic layouts.

- feedback driven development
- Feels almost like a true deck of cards. Practicing card magic you don't want no complicated, overloaded and distracting user interface. Less is more.
- Probably the most complete, and straightforward solution available.

A card, the one downwards (or upwards), maybe its mates, maybe the next one of the same suit. Either on random walk, or deliberate choices on the complete map. Touch. Sweep, sweep. Sweep and again.

Version history

3.6

2023-10-08

1. Code maintenance

3.5

2023-01-11

1. A new toolbar button to select the approach.
2. Code maintenance.

3.4

2022-06-20

1. Code maintentance

3.3

2021-05-28

1. User defined peg words for cards and numbers, named "House Peg Cards" and "House Peg Numbers", can now be provided through the Settings panel.
2. The "Show Stack" option now also includes the sequences for the peg words. Included is also a check on the element count.
3. A complete set of the three files required for user defined stacks and peg words, i.e. myStack1.txt, myPegCards1.txt, and myPegNumbers1.txt, is automatically provided in the app's document folder. These files serve as templates to make providing customized peg sets easy.
4. The app's document folder, named gicStack, is now accessible through the File app (which is available on latest iOS environments).
5. Code maintenance

3.2

2021-05-19

1. Additional approaches were added to support the processing of full or partial stacks aiming towards an even more comprehensive stack agility.
- Wrong Card: Identify the one card that is displaced
- Missing Card: Find the missing card
- Spot: Spot a specific card
- Highest Card: Identify the high and low cards of a random sub-stack.
These new features are experimental and will receive further maintenance in upcoming releases.

2. The Settings panel now allows users to specify a custom stack sequence in text format. This sequence, addressed as the "House Stack" can then be selected as the Stack. The previous option to provide custom stacks through text files remains.

3. The new "Show Stack" menu item reports the active stack sequence in text format ready to be copied to memory.

4. The new "Context Help" menu provides on-spot guidance for each of the eight approaches.

5. Code maintenance

3.1

2019-08-06

1. Code maintenance

3.0

2017-09-25

1. Two new approaches: 'Get Card' and 'Get Position'. These two approaches allow to query cards at random positions, and vice versa.
2. The new approaches are also supported on the interactive stack viewer to deliberately query cards and positions in context of the entire stack.
3. A new toolbar 'back' button, which enables to toggle the approach backwards. This complements the already existing 'forward' button.
4. These enhancements make v3.0 a major release.
5. Code maintenance

2.9

2016-12-08

1. Settings now accessible from the menu.

2.8

2016-10-09

1. Code maintenance

2.7

2016-02-10

1. Code Maintenance

2.6

2015-07-08

1. When in 'Four of a Kind' or 'Next Suits' mode, now, the interactive Stack Analyzer indicates the distance between the consecutive cards of the same type (the same kind, the same suit), in both directions. This new detail adds towards further agility in handing the stack.
2. Code maintenance

2.5

2015-04-12

1. Code Maintenance

2.4

2015-03-02

1. Code Maintenance

2.3

2015-01-10

1. Peg words are displayed in Next Card mode
2. Revised toolbar
3. Code maintenance

2.2

2014-12-31

- Peg words and numbers have been integrated and will be displayed in the interactive stack viewer.
- Peg words help to memorize a given stack, they also bring freedom and choice to experiment with new stacks. This new feature ensures you keep remembering your peg system, even if you don't need it anymore for a fully memorized stack.
- By default Harry Lorayne's Peg System is applied as described in his books 'Ageless Memory' and 'The Memory Book'. In addition, user defined peg words for the 52 cards and 52 positions can be assigned similar to the way user defined stacks are handled.

2.1

2014-10-15

1. Adjustments for iOS 8

2.0

2014-07-27

1. High precision playing card images by courtesy of Vectorized Playing Cards 1.3 (http://code.google.com/p/vectorized-playing-cards) have been integrated. This optional new feature allows for realistic mind-input when training stacks. The card images are supported by the "Next Card" modus.

1.7

2014-07-15

The new interactive stack viewer, introduced with the previous release, has been adjusted to support iOS6.0 and iOS6.1 devices.

1.6

2014-06-03

1. The interactive stack view has been introduced. This allows to query for any 4-of-a-kind in either decadic or tridecadic layout.

1.5

2014-05-21

Code Maintenance

1.4

2014-03-01

upgraded sound option
code maintenance

1.3

2013-11-11

Code maintenance and adjustments for IOS 7.

Starting with this release, now, three user defined stacks are supported. Note: Existing user defined stacks, named myStack.txt, must be renamed to myStack1.txt.

1.2

2013-07-16

code maintenance

1.1

2013-05-21

1. Minor changes in instructions text

1.0

2013-05-15