Improved version of the Avondale College, Auckland project: https://github.com/JDCRecomendable/unit-converter-old
This project is the product of a project required by the NCEA Curriculum, Standard AS91906. This project was overseen by teachers from Avondale College, Auckland.
Unit Converter is a cross-platform unit conversion software project that aims to provide a streamlined interface for unit conversion for students, scientists and businesses. Included in the program is support for over 370 different pre-defined units categorised into 16 different physical quantities. In addition, to support the needs of certain users, the program permits the addition of custom units.
The program is free/libre and open-source software. The source code is structured to allow for easy modification by other parties. Specifically, the core classes are split from the front-end-specific classes. As well, a definitions file is included that lists pre-defined units and their relative values to the S.I. unit of their physical quantities.
GNU General Public License Version 3
The program is provided with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED.
- The Cocoa-based front-end for macOS is not complete.
- The GTK-based front-end for GNU/Linux, though providing the minimum functionality available in the core project, is not currently on par with the Windows-Forms based front-end for Windows.
- Custom units at the moment cannot be saved and will have to be manually added at the next launch.
- Bring macOS and GNU/Linux front-ends to be on par with the Windows front-end.
- Allow custom units to be saved by the program and loaded automatically on start-up without user intervention.
- Allow the automated processing of multiple conversions. E.g. values to be converted can be stored in a CSV file that can then be loaded, read and processed by the program.
- Core
- GTK# Front-End for GNU/Linux
- WinForms for Windows
- Cocoa for macOS
- Ubuntu 18.04 and later
- Fedora 30 and later
- Mono Runtime
- Ubuntu:
apt install mono-runtime
- Fedora:
dnf install mono-core
- GTK# 2 Library
- Ubuntu:
apt install libgtk2.0-cil
- Fedora:
dnf install gtk-sharp2
mono GTKSharpFrontEnd.exe
(inputting UnitConverter.exe
to mono
instead will do nothing)
- .NET Framework 4.7
Double-click on WinFormsFrontEnd.exe
.
(running UnitConverter.exe
instead will do nothing)