[stanman]

FYI, the Handy Converter program has a whole tab devoted to drill and screw sizes.

http://www.stanstrains.com/HC12DrlScreenLg.htm

 

[stanman]

Richard - Handy Converter for Model Railroaders is software I've been offering for a while. It's evolved considerably over the years. Many of the additions were suggested by users - of which there are now thousands worldwide. It runs on any version of Windows from Win 95 through Vista.

Charles - the current version of the program is 12.4. I think the Drills and Screws tab was added in version 12.0, so I'll bet you have it!

 

[stanman]

Sorry - not Java. I was using good old Visual Studio 97 when I wrote the first version, so I've just continued using it. I've considered porting it to .NET, but the benefits seem to be lacking.

BTW, the program has a nice undocumented feature or two (actually documented with tool tips), such as - you may enter fractions in most of the fields (example: you can enter either 12.75 or 12 3/4).

I wrote a German language version too, and it also has undocumented features. It allows you to use either the comma or period for the decimal point. Example: you can enter either 12,75 or 12.75. It's always been hard for me to avoid including "goodies". The problem is you never know what's going to turn out to benefit the user...

 

[stanman]

Posted By rkapuaala on 11/05/2008 5:53 PM
VS 97 is an IDE, what language did you write it in?

VB6

 

[stanman]

Posted By rkapuaala on 11/05/2008 10:50 PM
Hum,,, I'm not real good with VB. Can you port it to c++ or javascript?

Nah - it'a a complete rewrite...