SmartConvert 1.01 - A generic converter with calculator

[Guest GroovyJoe]

I'v developped a freeware in my spare time, SmartConvert, which allow to convert currency from FRF to Euros or specify a custom conversion (Menu "Ma Conversion" and "Paramètres..."). It also possible to perform many operations like a the Windows Calculator.

This release is only in french but if you ask for I can adapt it, and add some conversion systems.

A next version should allow conversion in many more categories and with many currencies, and with internet updates for the rates.

Key mapping:

Volume Up / Volume Down: Quick selection of one of the 4 basics operations (+, -, *, /)

Record or Action: Perform the pending operation

Key '*': Decimal separator

Key '#': Minus sign

Home Page: http://remstation.free.fr/

Dowload the last version (CAB file): SmartConvert

[Guest Brody]

Haven't tested it yet but nice!! :wink:

And welcome to MoDaCo :)

[Guest Speedy]

I would like you to make an english version please, looks great.

And dont forget to add a Danish Kroner to Euro and the other way around (since i am from denmark)

Also a Dkk to British Pound would be great.

thanks

[Guest Tosh]

Please do an English version.

I posted weeks ago a request for a similar application - this will do nicely. Great work.

Tony

[Guest GroovyJoe]

Thank you all, I'll release an engligh version soon.

For the "Danish Kroner to Euro" conversion and other conversions for now you can use the customizable conversion till I add more currency...

[Guest MoRFLeZ]

Sounds great!

Here are a few thumbs up to keep you smiling while translating the app!

I have to ditto the Danish currency (along with many others .. and internet update rates).

Sounds like this is going to be a great app!!!

[Guest Coolboy1982]

Please please please do it like the way some pocket pc converters work:

allow any conversion from any to any currency!

the programme could get the rates from pages like this:

http://pacific.commerce.ubc.ca/xr/rates.html

so it would look for the rates.html file in its directory.

So we could download the rates.html, whenever we want, to update

the rates manually.

Keep up the good work!

[Guest Brody]

I like the idea of updating the currency converion rates a lot!!

[Guest Coolboy1982]

I like the idea of updating the currency converion rates a lot!!

yeah, me too!

and the easyest way to do it is the one described by me above, so there

is no need for a built in update function!

[Guest GroovyJoe]

Thanks for the idea and the url, effectively it's an easy way to do the update... I'll see what I can do.

[Guest crimminsky]

while we wait, We can use www.XE.com through IE to do conversions which have up to date rates :lol: hope this helps

[Guest Coolboy1982]

while we wait, We can use www.XE.com through IE to do conversions which have up to date rates :lol: hope this helps

Yeah, I know that one, too.

There is many great rate sites for conversions.

Another good one is http://www2.travlang.com/money/

They also have example pictures of notes and coins there.

I tried to rip the converters of so many pages for personal use on my spv,

so I could have an offline converter, but it never worked.

So I will be really happy, if this converter app will become a global currency

converter, where ALL conversions are possible like on the online ones (say

Romanian Lei to Slovak Korona for instance).

Good luck with the development

[Guest GroovyJoe]

Another good one is http://www2.travlang.com/money/

They also have example pictures of notes and coins there.

Waouh, rates date from Jan 05, 1999!!!!

[Guest Coolboy1982]

Waouh, rates date from Jan 05, 1999!!!!

OH MY GOD!

Sory, I did not see that!

And I did not realise, because the Euro was similarly high at that time like it

is now, as it was before the big crash downwards!

Sorry...

And thank you again, cause I think I happened to make my holiday

calculations for Hungary, Slovak Republic, Poland and Romania with this site!

;-)

[Guest Coolboy1982]

OH MY GOD!

Sory, I did not see that!

And I did not realise, because the Euro was similarly high at that time like it

is now, as it was before the big crash downwards!

Sorry...

And thank you again, cause I think I happened to make my holiday

calculations for Hungary, Slovak Republic, Poland and Romania with this site!

;-)

WE JUDGED THAT SITE TOO QUICKLY!!!

The rates for their calculator are actually only one day old 28.05.2003

The wrong date (January 1999) only appears sometimes as an error, when

you select European Currency Units from the first page!

If you are already on the calculator page, you can use Euro (which is how

it should be) and all rates are only a day old!

They probably haven't maintained that site for a while, so that in some

corners European Currency Units pop up instead of Euro and old rates!

But the calculations are still accurate (well as accurate as 1 day old can

be). They probably automatically use a similar webpage for the calculator

database to the one I gave you above (which I think is also just updated

every morning).

The great thing about the site is also the listing of denominations (although

they possibly have changed in some countries since they last updated

the site) and the pictures of coins and notes (actually including the euro, so

some updating seems to have gone on)!!!

Anyway, how's that application getting on?

are you using the currency table I gave you above?

[Guest GroovyJoe]

It's going well, I'll probably release a new version tonight, it'll be a real generic conversion software. Everything will be configurable with a XML file which looks like like this:

<SmartConvert>


	<Categories>


  <Category name="Monnaies" date="28/05/2003">


 	 <Unit tla="EUR" name="Euros" rate="1.000000"/>


 	 <Unit tla="FRF" name="France Francs *" rate="6.55957"/>


 	 <Unit tla="USD" name="United States Dollars" rate="1.17352"/>


 	 .........


  </Category>


	</Categories>


	<Resources>


  <String id="id_menu_clear" value="RAZ"/>


  <String id="id_menu_menu" value="Menu"/>


  <String id="id_menu_ok" value="OK"/>


  <String id="id_menu_cancel" value="Annuler"/>


  .........


	</Resources>


</SmartConvert>

You can add as many categories as you want, and with any unit (like currencies, etc.) you want, and you can make the translation yourself.

So for now the rates won't be automatically updated by the web... Perhaps next version.

[Guest Coolboy1982]

It's going well, I'll probably release a new version tonight, it'll be a real generic conversion software. Everything will be configurable with a XML file which looks like like this:

<SmartConvert>


	<Categories>


  <Category name="Monnaies" date="28/05/2003">


 	 <Unit tla="EUR" name="Euros" rate="1.000000"/>


 	 <Unit tla="FRF" name="France Francs *" rate="6.55957"/>


 	 <Unit tla="USD" name="United States Dollars" rate="1.17352"/>


 	 .........


  </Category>


	</Categories>


	<Resources>


  <String id="id_menu_clear" value="RAZ"/>


  <String id="id_menu_menu" value="Menu"/>


  <String id="id_menu_ok" value="OK"/>


  <String id="id_menu_cancel" value="Annuler"/>


  .........


	</Resources>


</SmartConvert>

You can add as many categories as you want, and with any unit (like currencies, etc.) you want, and you can make the translation yourself.

So for now the rates won't be automatically updated by the web... Perhaps next version.

Fair enough! That is a lot better than nothing!

At least I will add the currencies I need before each holiday!

As it looks the currency rates are all related to the Euro, but

will crosscalculations be possible directly?

For example from Canadian Dollars to Australian Dollars or

from Polish Zloty to Hungarian Forint without calculating first

into Euros and then into the other currency?

Thanks so far! Waiting for the realease tonight!

Keep up the good work!

[Guest GroovyJoe]

Actually you can refer to any other currency, whereas all the rate are related to the same.

The conversion from unit 1 to unit 2 is made by dividing the 2 corresponding rates, so you can convert from any unit to any other unit!

You're a luky guy to go on holyday in all these countries!

[Guest Coolboy1982]

Actually you can refer to any other currency, whereas all the rate are related to the same.

The conversion from unit 1 to unit 2 is made by dividing the 2 corresponding rates, so you can convert from any unit to any other unit!

You're a luky guy to go on holyday in all these countries!

That is good news!

Are you still going to release it this night?

By the way, I am not going to Canada or Australia too soon.

It was only an example. The eastern European countries are

quite relevant for me thgough, cause I will fly (for 19 Euro)

to Hungary, where I will meet my Romanian fiancee and go

by train to Slovak Republic and the south of Poland, before

going to Romania and at the end of the summer flying back

again from Hungary.

Now for all this I need to be neither rich, nor lucky, as it is quite

cheap to travel around eastern Europe.

But I am gonna have a lot of fun, and I am sure your converter

will prove to be quite useful to me!

[Guest GroovyJoe]

I'll release a beta version... I've got problems with menu items for internationalisation.

It's nice to travel, even more when it's cheaap :lol: