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PROGRAM OPERATION
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.
A FEW ADDITIONAL NOTES
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.
You can copy your calculations to the clipboard for use by
other Windows applications via the "Edit" menu bar.