Hi All !.. and thank you for reading this.
I have a project I am working on which requires many conversions. I am
currently doing it manually and it’s starting to make me crazy. I was told
this could be done in Flash, which would be great, but I have little skill
with Flash, and I’m not really sure where to start. What I need to do is:
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Convert unorthodox units of measure to conventional units (mm/cm
and inches/feet). These “unorthodox” units of measure are based on
conventional units, so it’s just a matter of saying a “widget” = 9.5mm
(or) 0.3740063645"… etc. (just a simple example). There are 3 different
unorthodox units in total, each with its own value. -
To complicate things the unorthodox units are affected by “classes”.
(Here is another basic example)… say there are four classes of widget,
each with its own base value, such as:
Class 1 = 9.5mm
Class 2 = 12mm
Class 3 = 16mm
Class 4 = 22mm
So basically you select a class, type a value to convert, and it converts
based on the chosen class. Actually with the layout I planned, there are
there are 5 text boxes (one for each “unorthodox” unit, and one each for
metric and “standard”. I thought a combo box would work well for selecting
the class.
Ideally I could type a measurement into any one of the five fields, and
the conversions would show in all the other fields. So if I enter 3 inches
into the “standard measure” field the corresponding coversions would show
up in the other fields all at once.
- If the above is not impossible, I would also like to add standard calculator
functionality so further processing could be performed on a given conversion.
I am curious as to how difficult this would be to achieve. I’m sure it’s not
impossible, but with limited Flash knowledge I imagine it will be fairly
difficult. :h:
Either way I have to figure it out, so if anyone could point me in the right
direction I would be more than appreciative. Thank you in advance for any
assistance you might be able to offer.
