Unit Wizard 0

by rgordon Sat, 05 Sep 2009 12:38 pm EDT

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Last Updated:

2010-02-09

Current Version:

0.0.3

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Available via Repository

Total Downloads:

17748

Description

This is a conversion program for units and some numeric conversions.

Initially the unit conversions supported is a short list of common ones, which I plan to grow over time.

Features of the program include:

swapping between from and to fields: units, values or both,
dark and light color themes,
preferences saved for color theme
last unit selections and input value saved on exit and restored on start
input field checked for proper unit format. Displays an inline error when invalid.
range checks on values. Displays an inline error message if a value is out of range for the unit, ex. negative values for Kelvin.

Supported conversions:

See the forum post for details of units included.

Changelog:

0.0.2 - initial release
0.0.3 - add Mass, Torque. Add numlock(orange key). Remove keypress filter so all key hits are visible.

More units to be added:

Coordinates (Cartesian, Geographic, Cylindrical)
date->doy
kitchen units (separate category, easier to access)
pressure, density, angle, fuel consumption, energy, power, etc
ascii
numerals: Eastern Arabic (Arabic-Indic)
File and memory storage (KB MB GB TB to bytes)
IEEE-754 Floating-Point Conversion from Floating-Point to Hexadecimal and reverse
Decimal to fractions
suggestions??

Functionality to be added:

reset prefs
save last used units for each category
save conversions to a list
add reference pages
add multiconvert scene: show all conversion results simultaneously for units in a category
International number formatting (comma vs period)
fractional digits setting
suggestions??