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- Probe House Software presents
-
- Probe House U N I T C O N V E R T O R v 1 . 0
-
- William Wong, Jan 1995
- Probe House Software
-
- * Introduction.
- * Installation.
- * Using PH Unit.
- * The Dialogs of the program.
- * The Conversion Report window.
- * The GUI of PH Unit.
- * Changing dialog Background Fill.
- * Application or accessory.
- * Development, History, acknowledgement, address
-
- PH Unit is freeware - you can freely use and distribute it. If you
- like it, please let me know as it is a booster for software developer.
- Donations and gifts are welcome.
-
- Introducting PH Unit
- =====================
- The Probe House Unit Conversion or PH Unit is an small application
- for, no prizes for guessing, converison between different units.
-
- Why this program?
- Well, I am not used to Miles and Fahrenheit, it's Kilometers and Celsius
- where I come from, and have a hard time having a feel for distances and
- temperature. Thus, this program was developed.
-
- Of course it does a few other conversion as well.
- Here is a list of units it can handle:
-
- Length : feet, inches, yards, centimeters, meters, kilometers,
- statute miles, nautical miles, par-secs, light-years,
- mils, microns, millimicrons, angstroms, x-units, rods,
- fathoms, furlongs.
-
- Mass : pounds, grams, kilograms, tons, amus, ounces, stones.
-
- Speed : m/sec, ft/sec, km/hr, cm/sec, knots, miles/hr.
-
- Volume : cubic meters, cubic cms, liters, gallons, cubic feet,
- cubic inches, barrels, hogsheads, boardfeet, cords.
-
- Area : square meters, square cms, square feet, square inches,
- circular mills, acres.
-
- Density : kg/m3, slug/ft3, gm/cm3, lb/ft3, lb/in3.
-
- Time : days, years, hours, minutes, seconds, decades, score,
- centuries, millenia, fortnights.
-
- Force : newtons, dynes, pounds, gram-force, kilogram-force.
-
- Energy : btus, ergs, ft-lbs, hp-hr, joules, calories, kilowatt-hours,
- electron volts, MeV.
-
- Pressure: atmospheres, dynes/cm2, inches of water, cms Hg, torr,
- mms Hg, inches Hg, lbs/in2, lbs/ft2, newtons/m2, bars,
- pascals.
-
- Plane Angle :
- degrees, minutes, seconds, radians, revolutions.
-
- Power : btus/hour, ft-lbs/min, ft-lbs/sec, horsepower, kilowatts,
- watts, calories/sec.
-
- Electric Charge :
- coulombs, abcoulombs, amp-hrs, faradays, statcoulombs,
- electron charges.
-
- Magnetic Induction:
- gauss, kilolines/in2, webers/m2, tesla, gamma.
-
- Light : Footlamberts, Nit, Millilamberts, Candelas/in2,
- Candelas/ft2, Candelas/m2, Stilb.
-
- Temperature :
- Fahrenheit, Celsius, Rankine, Kelvin.
-
- There are others, but hey, I'm no rocket scientist!!
-
-
- Using PH Unit
- =============
- 1/ Select the type of unit conversion you are interested in, eg length.
- 2/ Next select the specific unit, eg "inches".
- 3/ Next enter the amount, eg 10.
- 4/ The result will be a table converting the amount of inches to every other
- unit of length the program is familiar with.
-
-
- Installation
- ============
- Easy really, just unlzh the archive into any directory.
- Double click on the PH Unit icon to run it.
-
-
- Dialogs of the PH Unit
- ======================
-
- The Main Dialog
- ---------------
- This is where you start off. It presents all the possible type of
- conversion available in this program. Just click on the type you
- are interested in.
-
-
- The Units Dialog
- ----------------
- This dialog requires you to select the specific units you want to
- convert. Click on the unit that you are interested in.
-
-
- The Entry Dialog
- ----------------
- This dailog prompts you for the value of the unit selected in the
- Unit Dialog. This value will be converted to every other unit
- displayed in the Unit Dialog.
-
-
- The Converion Report Window
- ===========================
- This window display the result of the conversion.
- Conversion results will always be display in this window. So old
- results are overwritten and lost.
-
- To save the result in a file, press 'P' whenever this window is
- opened. You will be prompted for the filename to save the results
- into via a file selector. Overwrite warning will not be issued.
-
-
- The PH Unit GUI
- ===============
- PH Unit uses an advance GUI for the ST/STE/TT and Falcon. The following
- tries to give an overview of the interface.
-
- Iconification
- -------------
- All windows can be iconified in all TOS version.
- For those TOS which support iconification use the button for it.
- For other TOS, to iconify a window, click the RIGHT mouse button on
- the window title bar.
-
- Window management
- -----------------
- Windows can be manipulated by hot keys.
- ESC : Maximise / restore size a window.
- Shift-ESC : Close a window.
- Shift-Tab : Iconify a window.
- Control-Tab: Cycle windows.
-
-
- Changing dialog background fills
- ================================
- To change the background fill, double click on any part of the Main
- Dialog except the buttons. The selected background fill is remembered
- for future usage of PH Unit.
-
- The default background fill is 50% grey.
-
-
- Application or Accessory
- ========================
- PH Unit is both an application and am accessory rolled into one.
- To use it as an application, rename it to PHUNIT.PRG
- To use it as an accessory, rename it to PHUNIT.ACC and pop it into
- the bootup drive.
-
-
- Development, History, acknowledgement, address
- ==============================================
- This program was developed on a 4Mb Tos 2.05 Mega STE with 170Mb HDD.
- Currently I am using a TV, my monitor is back home. I am not shipping
- my monitor for this. So if the screen looks funny, please feedback to
- me.
-
- Software tools and package use:
- -------------------------------
- Program : Pure C, Pure Debugger and GUI provided by BIG 1.88.
- Hypertext: Pure C (editor), ST-Guide and HCP
-
- History
- -------
- Ver 1.0: Released to the public as freeware.
-
- What's next ?
- -------------
- For PHSW, I am thinking of a QWK OLR, well, actually, it will be an
- update of my unrelased QWK OLR.
-
- Feedback
- --------
- Please send feedback of any types to:
- Internet : wongck@lobby.ti.com
-
- Mail : William Wong
- Blk 148, Potong Pasir Ave 1,
- #04-63, S(1335),
- Republic of Singapore.
-
- William Wong The USA address valid till
- 2600 Preston Road, April 1995
- Apt 1009,
- Plano, Texas 75093
- USA
-
- Acknowledgement
- ---------------
- Borland Germany for the excellent Pure C and Pure debugger.
- Claude Attard for the cool BIG libraries.
- Holger Weets for the great ST-Guide and HCP software.
- Gregory Simpson for the conversion table.
- My students for the interpretation.
-
-