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W3 UNIT CONVERTER
Written By: Bill White
MicroVision II
The Unit Converter converts units - lots of units. The program supports:
Unit Search
Clipboard copy and paste
Unit double conversion
ASCII data file that can be edited with any ASCII editor
Unit Conversion
Unit conversion is accomplished by entering numbers in a box which contains
the cursor. Numbers and scientific notation, such as 2.33455e3 are accepted.
Conversion will work from right-to-left or left-to-right. You can enter a
number on either the right or left side of the table and the opposite side
will calculate the answer.
Unit Search
If a unit, such as "years", is entered, the program goes into the search mode.
The entered unit will be located and displayed for use as conversion. A
complete word is not necessary to perform a search.
Clipboard
An entered number or an answer can be copied to the clipboard. Position the
cursor on the number to be "clipped" and press the "Copy" option in the menu.
Paste works too. To use it, position the cursor on the unit where the value
is to be pasted and click the "Paste" option in the menu bar. If the "Paste"
option is grayed, there is no valid number in the clipboard.
Double Conversion
Any number in a box can be "Picked-up" and placed in a buffer. To place the
number in the buffer in another conversion, position the cursor to the
desired conversion and click the right mouse button again. The "Picked-up"
value will be "deposited" where the cursor is located.
For example: you wish to convert inches of mercury to Bars. The program does
not have this conversion, but it does have inches of mercury to pounds per
square inch and bars to pounds per square inch. To accomplish this
conversion, enter the value to convert into the inches of mercury. The
program will calculate the pounds per square inch. Move the cursor to the
calculated pounds per square inch and click the right mouse button. The
search feature can now be used, and you can type bars. The conversion from
bars to pounds per square inch will appear on the screen. Place the cursor
in the pounds per square inch side of the conversion and click the right
mouse button again and the resultant Bar calculation will appear.
When there is a value in the "pick-up" buffer the "Clear holder" option in
the menu will go from grayed to black. If you wish to clear this buffer
click on this menu item. Clicking the right mouse button will write the last
value to this buffer making it unnecessary to clear the buffer.
If desired, the clipboard may also be used for this function. The value in
the clipboard may be used many times while the value in the "Pick-up" buffer
can be used only once.
CHANGING CONVERSIONS
The file "W3_CONV.DAT" is where the conversion data resides. It can be
changed by any ASCII editor - such as DOS 5.0 EDIT. The first file is
configured such that the first entry is the left unit, the second entry is
the right unit, the third entry is the multiplier, and the fourth entry is
the adder. These entries are delimited by commas. The calculation takes the
form of (x*y)+z=w where x is the first entry, y is the third entry, z is the
fourth entry, and w is the second entry in the data file.
The program does not sort the entries, so if you wish to keep the conversions
in alphabetical order you must do it by its position in the data file.
REGISTRATION
This program is not Freeware it is Shareware. Feel free to share this
program with others, but please make sure that all files are included when
you pass the program on.
If you find this program useful, please send $10.00 to:
MicroVision II
BOX 51551
Midland, TX 79705
If it is not worth $10.00 to you, just send what it is worth to you.
But if you use it, please register it.
Thanks
Bill White
FILES
Files included with this program are:
W3_CONV.EXE Windows Executable File
W3_CONV.DAT Conversion units file
W3_CONV.TXT This file