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- PROGRAM OPERATION
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- One example should make the program operation intuitively
- obvious even to the most casual observer. Let's suppose
- that you have just driven from San Francisco, Ca. to Los
- Angeles and found that the distance was 396 miles. A
- foreign exchange student, that you know, wants to make the
- same journey but asks you for the distance in kilometers.
- Your sister, who lives in San Francisco, also plans to join you
- next week. She drives like Captain Kirk!
-
- Start the program by double clicking the "Units Converter"
- icon from Windows. Work from left -to-right on the program
- window. Use your mouse to scroll the units type window
- pane and select "Length" by clicking it. Move the mouse to
- the next pane and click "miles". A message window opens
- asking you for the number of "miles", its default value is 1.0.
- Enter 396 and click "OK". The far right window-pane now
- displays the equivalent of 396-miles in several scientific,
- international and engineering units. Scroll the right pane to
- locate the "kilometer" value of 637 km. Also, tell your sister
- that light takes only 0.002 seconds to make the same journey.
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- A FEW ADDITIONAL NOTES
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- Clicking in the right window will change it to a yellow-back-
- ground with black-foreground. Some people, and their
- dogs, claim that this is more readable.
-
- Accepting the default value of 1.0 for a selected unit displays
- the relative values of the other units.
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- You can copy your calculations to the clipboard for use by
- other Windows applications via the "Edit" menu bar.
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