Workflow: Units - convert currency length temperature weight and more

[gingerbeardman]

JPY typo as dpy on line 705

 

currently:

 

$this->add_to_lib(1,0,'dpy' ,'currency' ,'|jpy|¥|yen|japanese|' ,'yen'   ,'Japanese yen'  ,'usd|eur|gbp'); 

should be:

$this->add_to_lib(1,0,'jpy' ,'currency' ,'|jpy|¥|yen|japanese|' ,'yen'   ,'Japanese yen'  ,'usd|eur|gbp'); 

 

Edited July 29, 2013 by gingerbeardman

[PSiCKo]

Very very nice. I'd like to translate it, but i guess that it works via webpage, doesn't it?

[Subject22]

Very very nice. I'd like to translate it, but i guess that it works via webpage, doesn't it?

 

Nope. All the calculations are done locally.

[PSiCKo]

Well, i think that there is too much that i don't understand of alfred lol

Edited August 11, 2013 by PSiCKo

[xilopaint]

I use about 30 workflows and this one has the most beautiful design. Congratz!

[Lundmark]

This workflow is great. Exactly what I was looking for. 

 

Is it possible to reduce the amount of decimals when converting currency?  $31.297680059466 is a bit unwieldy and way more information than I usually need. $31.297 or even $31.3 would be enough for my everyday needs.

 

[rkrdo]

It doesn't work if I want to convert from US Dollars to Mexican Pesos, where can I modify this?

[designandsuch]

It doesn't work if I want to convert from US Dollars to Mexican Pesos, where can I modify this?

 

Hi, rkrdo.. and others

 

I'm working on a bigger update...

But for now I fixed a couple of typo's.

this will fix :

 

- mexican dollar (mxn)

- japanese yen(jpy)

- new zealand dollra (nzd).

 

Please re-download Units for it to take effect

download via http://time.designandsuch.com/units/update

Edited December 29, 2013 by designandsuch

[designandsuch]

The download link is not working for me, I keep getting a 'not found' error.

 

Do you still have problems downloading? It seems to work fine for me now, the server might have had downtime when you tried to download it.

[shayonpal]

I am not trying to nitpick, but I think 120GB should have translated to 1,22,880MB and not 1,20,000MB.

 

 

Additionally, what command should I use to convert 5 feet 8 inches to meters?

[Lundmark]

I am not trying to nitpick, but I think 120GB should have translated to 1,22,880MB and not 1,20,000MB.

 

Nope.

[shayonpal]

Nope.

 

Well, check this conversion from Google.

 

 

By the way, 1GB = 1024 MB

[Lundmark]

Well, check this conversion from Google.

 

 

By the way, 1GB = 1024 MB

 

Well yes, but mostly no. 

 

There has been a lot of confusion regarding what constitutes a gigabyte throughout the years. One gigabyte is exactly 1000 MB. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte

[Southgirl]

Do you still have problems downloading? It seems to work fine for me now, the server might have had downtime when you tried to download it.

 

Yep, nothing happens. The page never finishes loading. Is this the only website where you have upload it?

[Tarique Naseem]

Well yes, but mostly no. 

 

There has been a lot of confusion regarding what constitutes a gigabyte throughout the years. One gigabyte is exactly 1000 MB. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte

 

Actually a GB is 1024MB in real terms. Take it from a programmer with over 25 years experience.

 

This confusion has only come about because of HD manufacturers who resorted to measure GB as 1000MB to make their capacities seem larger than they actually were. More a marketing thing than anything. This is why when you get info from your PC on HD space it always comes to lower than whats written on the sticker, as the PC is measuring it properly, in base 2.

 

As a conversion, I'd recommend sticking to the base 2 definition. That's what computers work with

Edited November 1, 2013 by tnaseem

[mklement0]

> That's what computers work with

 

Not consistently: OS X has reported base-10 numbers with respect to drive capacity (in line with manufacturers' specs.) since Snow Leopard (10.6).

 

Confusion exists, but it can be avoided by using distinct unit names for the base-10 and base-2 definitions:

• GB (gigabyte)= base 10 = 10 ^ 9
• GiB (gibibyte [sic]) = base 2 = 2 ^ 30

(analogous distinction for KB/KiB, ...)

 

This distinction was adopted by the IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) and "the IEC Standard had been adopted by the IEEE, EU, and NIST."

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte

[Lundmark]

Is it possible to reduce the amount of decimals when converting currency?  $31.297680059466 is a bit unwieldy and way more information than I usually need. $31.297 or even $31.3 would be enough for my everyday needs.

Any fix for this? Can I modify it myself somehow?

[fncll]

This is a great workflow!

 

But the unit conversions I need most are for cooking: teaspoons, tablespoons, cupts, quarts, pints... any chance you could have some of those in there?

[JBR]

This could be extraordinarily useful to graphic designers (especially UI folks) with the incorporation of typography and resolution converters. E.g:

 

• Pixels (px) at Resolution (ppi) = Length (millimetres, inches, …), and inverse

• Points (pt) to Length (millimetres, inches, …), and inverse

• Ems (em) or Ens (en) at Point Size (pt) and at Resolution (ppi) = Pixels (px)

• (et cetera…)

 

It used to be that 1 point was equal to 1 pixel, but with mobile and "retina" resolutions there's no longer any consistency.

[jaster]

This workflow is great. Exactly what I was looking for. 

 

Is it possible to reduce the amount of decimals when converting currency?  $31.297680059466 is a bit unwieldy and way more information than I usually need. $31.297 or even $31.3 would be enough for my everyday needs.

 

I'd also like this. Something like $367.252447 would be much nicer.

[dfay]

+1 for fncll's request for volume conversions.  The code is pretty clear so I may try to add this myself -- perhaps the original dev. could put it on github?

[designandsuch]

Hi everyone,

 

I just wanted to let you know that i'm still working on the new version.

which is going to include all the extra units that where mentioned as requests ( cooking units, typography units ect. ).

But more importantly I'm working on a complimentary website with all the units and their ; abbreviations, explanation and some interesting debates about the different conversion conventions. I will start with just a Docs of all the units. But maybe i'll even make it into a public wiki at some point.

 

I'm developing with an web-feed based version, which might be a little slower ( if you've got an old mac ) and will require an internet connection, but I barely feel any lack myself. In fact since the current 'local' version checks for the exchange rates now and then it freezes for a moment the first time you run it. And now I will update the exchange rates on my own server. 

 

I'm still considering porting it to a local version so it can run independently on your machine. But that would leave out some essential power i build in this time. Mostly of which are the updates, since right now I know there are a lot of people with old version who have to deal with bugs i fixed a long time ago.

So maybe I just should use that time to add in more units. Any thoughts on the local vs web-feed dillemma?

 

And the best thing is that I will be able to add new units and expand the keywords to activate them on the fly. So if someone finds a bug / typo I can fix it for everyone right away. I'm sure there are quite some people around who are still struggling with my typo's in a couple of currency abbreviations. So this won't be a problem anymore in the future.

 

And this time i tackled the double units.. so now you will be able to just type  5'7" cm and it will tell you 170.18 cm.. so this will work for all of them off course. 5kilometer 2 miles m  will return 8218.688 m... and so on.

 

Basically redid the whole thing, all i need to do now is work a bit on the phrasing.. update/ edit some of the icons. and add all those extra units.

 

I'll keep you guys posted!

Edited December 14, 2013 by designandsuch

[designandsuch]

Release of Units 0.5 (beta)

 

Hi workflow users, I am releasing version 0.5 of the new Units.

It's still in heavy development so don't expect a solid state.

 

This version is more for early adopters who would like to check out the new features

 

you can download it here  : http://time.designandsuch.com/units/update

docs: http://time.designandsuch.com/units/docs

 

As you can see I also created a ( really shabby ) documentation of the workflow, this will be improved off course.

So if you're interested to try it out, here are some new features:

 

1. version solution :  manually check the version

 

2. double units - aka - fix the 1'5" > cm problem

 

3. Docs - if Units doesn't understand he will refer you to the docs

 

4. Notifications if a new update is available

 

 

 

If you would like to help me with adding units and making it better, please contact me at thijs@designandsuch.com

 

So now on to a stable and complete version 1.0

Edited December 16, 2013 by designandsuch

[raguay.customct]

The above version does not handle the Thai Baht (thb). It is not usable like that since that and temperatures are the main things I use it for. I went back to the original version.

[designandsuch]

The above version does not handle the Thai Baht (thb). It is not usable like that since that and temperatures are the main things I use it for. I went back to the original version.

 

You're absolutely right, I'm still adding values and improving some features ( better special character handling, smarter interpretation, improved logic etc ).

 

The old version is 'at this point in time' more useful in general, because it simply has more units.

I would encourage people to download the new version though, because this one will get all the old + the new units eventually.

 

*I added the bath into the new version in my attempt to win you over