ENTISOFT UNITS V1.1 FACT SHEET
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- Entisoft Units is a sophisticated measurement conversion calculator
for Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office. It recognizes any combination
of the approximately 500 built-in SI, metric, American, English, historical,
and ancient measures. Click here to VIEW THE
MEASUREMENTS RECOGNIZED by Entisoft Units (91K).
- The package includes an interactive Windows executable program for performing
measurement conversions.
- The package also includes Microsoft Access and Excel Add-In versions.
These Add-Ins provide both function call libraries (APIs) and simple interactive
calculators.
- The registered package includes Visual Basic source code to all versions,
including a port for Microsoft Project.
- The shareware (trial) package is available via this Web Page, on CompuServe,
America Online, and our Entisoft BBS in a file named ESUNITS.ZIP.
Click here to DOWNLOAD
the SHAREWARE version of ENTISOFT UNITS (622K).
- The miniature shareware package is available in a file named ESUNITM.ZIP.
Click here to DOWNLOAD
the MINI Shareware version of Entisoft Units (136K).
- Single user price is $39.95. Site licensing prices are detailed below.
Register Entisoft Units on CompuServe: GO CIS:SWREG and use SWREG
#6972.
- Version 1.1 corrects a bug which caused certain units to be incorrectly
evaluated.
- Uses a natural language interface for expressing measurements.
For example, converting from "10 cups" to "liters" returns 2.37.
- Measurements can be preceded by any of 50 known prefixes.
- Measurements are known by their common names, abbreviations, acronyms,
and synonyms. For example, "kilometers per hour" can be entered as "KPH",
"km/hr", "kmeters/hour", "kilometers per hour", etc.
- Understands any combination of the known units and/or prefixes. For example,
converting "45 ft*lbs/second^2" (a measure of force) to "newtons" returns
6.22.
- Sophisticated parser uses case sensitivity and other hints to help interpret
the measurements.
- Returns the remaining units when the units being converted do not represent
the same type of physical measurement. For example, converting "12 joules"
(a measure of energy) to "newtons" (a measure of force) returns "12 meters"
(a measure of length).
- Understands numbers expressed in either decimal form or as fractions.
- Powerful text replacement definitions extend the variations of names
and abbreviations recognized by the program.
- Features interactive calculator, list of known units and prefixes,
tip wizard, history list, and user-defined conversion factors box.
- All user input and calculated results are shown with the physical
measurements that they represent. For example, any measurements of the form
"length per time" (e.g. "miles per hour") are described as "speed".
- The units mentioned in all input and result expressions can be enumerated.
For example, the program will tell you that "kg*m^2" was interpreted as "kilogram
meter^2"
- Any remaining units are returned in the standard SI units for the physical
measurement. For example, measurements of energy such as "kilowatt hours"
are displayed in joules (the SI unit of energy). Results can optionally be
displayed in terms of the fundamental base units (kilograms, meters, seconds,
amperes, etc.)
- Result window changes colors to indicate when units are matched or mismatched
or when there is an error.
- Several menu items control the content and format of the units and prefixes
list.
- User-defined unit and prefix definitions can be entered into the program
directly or read from a text file.
- Results are formatted as appropriate to show as much information as possible
within the result window.
- Results are calculated and displayed as soon as there is a pause in your
typing--no need to press {Enter} to perform the calculation.
- Registered users receive the complete Visual Basic source code
to all versions.
- Includes an additional data file with more than twenty categories of
technical data.
- Registered users can download the latest registered distribution of Entisoft
Units from our BBS.
- Does not contain the "nag" messages which appear each time that the Shareware
versions are opened and closed.
- Supplemental data file contains the full name, common names, and ticker
symbol definitions for most internationally-traded currencies. Users and
developers must supply their own daily currency values as appropriate, but
this example shows you the necessary format for the data.
- Conversion functions can be called from within Worksheets, Modules,
Charts, and Macros.
- Includes a simple calculator for performing measurement conversions
interactively.
- Conversion functions can be called from within Queries, Forms,
Reports, and Modules.
- Includes a simple calculator for performing measurement conversions
interactively.
- In the registered package, the Access version contains all of the conversion
factors, prefixes, and other definitions in the form of an Access database
Table.
- We do not officially support the use of our software on Macintosh
computers, nor have we thoroughly tested our software on a Macintosh, however...
- Most of our Excel Add-In functions work with Excel 5.0 for Macintosh
because it does not use any Windows-specific functions.
- We believe that most of functions in the Project version Entisoft Units
will work with Microsoft Project for Macintosh for the same reasons.
- You can try the Excel Add-In from our Shareware Distribution if you have
any questions about whether the features you need work when our software
is used on a Macintosh.
- We cannot offer Entisoft Units on Macintosh-format floppy diskettes at
this time so Mac users will need to acquire our software electronically.
- Entisoft Units is distributed in a compressed PKZIP v2.04g format file.
Mac users must use a program like UNZIP.SIT to uncompress our software.
Click here to DOWNLOAD
a version of UNZIP.SIT (149K).
- Each version consists of about 10,000 lines of documented Visual
Basic/VBA source code.
- The Excel Add-In and secured Access Add-in versions can be freely distributed
with your custom applications.
- The source code can be compiled into your Visual Basic executables. It
can also be included within your Excel Add-Ins and secured Access applications,
as long as it is not shared with unregistered users.
- Clear separation between back-end measurement conversion functions and
front-end user interface functions.
- All versions employ error detection and correction so that you are not
required to safeguard your use of our functions with error trapping.
- Source Code contains several generally useful functions from our library.
- When measurements cannot be recognized, the functions return a string
error message suggesting possibe alternatives which either sound alike or
partially match the unknown name.
- Additional user-defined definitions can be easily embedded within the
source code itself.
- Contains functions for inserting new conversion factors/prefixes and
for modifying the existing definitions. Also contains functions for reading
conversion factors from a text file.
- Conversion factors are read from text files in the form of Basic function
calls. This single format for specifying unit and prefix definitions means
that they can be freely moved between the source code, external text files,
and the user-defined definitions box in the Windows executable program.
- Functions cache certain important operations to improve the performance
of subsequent calls.
- The names of all "public" functions/subroutines, constants, and user-defined
types are prefixed with "est" to help avoid conflicts with your existing
code.
- Conversion functions can determine if cycles exist within the unit and
prefix definitions.
- The Visual Basic program does not currently require any custom controls
(VBXs, OCXs, etc.) nor dynamic link libraries (DLLs) other than VBRUN300.DLL.
This means that developers can use the Standard Edition of Visual Basic to
modify, run, and compile the software.
- estConvert performs measurement conversions given a numeric
measurement, the units of that measurement, and the desired units for the
result. For example, estConvert(5, "feet", "meters") converts
5 feet into meters, returning 1.524.
- estConvertSpecial performs measurement conversions to and/or from
multiple related units, as well as supporting fractional numbers and the
rounding of results. For example, estConvertSpecial("5' 11 13/16""",
"m", "", 1000, False) converts 5 feet 11 13/16 inches into meters,
returning 1.824.
- estConvertString performs similar conversions given a string
describing the conversion to be performed. For example,
estConvertString("5 feet to meters") performs the same conversion
as in the above example.
- estConvertEnum enumerates the units represented by an expression.
For example, estConvertEnum("KW*hr") returns kilowatt
hour.
- estConvertFindCat determines the physical measurement represented
by an expression. For example, estConvertFindCat("KW*hr") returns
energy.
- estConvertCheck performs several consistency checks of the
currently-defined measurements and prefixes.
- estConvertLoadFiles loads the unit and prefix definitions contained
within one or more text files.
- estConvertAddUnit registers a new conversion factor which Entisoft
Units can use within conversion calculations. For example,
estConvertAddUnit("in", "inches", 1/12, "foot", "length") defines
a unit of length named inches with identifier in as
1/12 of a foot.
- estConvertAddPrefix registers a new prefix which Entisoft Units
can use within conversion calculations. For example,
estConvertAddPrefix("m", "mega", 1000000) adds the prefix
mega identified by m as 1,000,000 (10^6).
- estConvertAddReplacement registers a new text string replacement
which Entisoft Units will attempt to apply during each conversion calculation.
For example, estConvertAddReplacement("inch", "in", 0) adds the
synonym inch which is replaced everywhere that it occurs within
expressions by in.
- Built-in definitions include several physical constants.
- Supports the conversion of temperatures which have different base scales.
- Supports the conversion of resistor color codes to the corresponding
resistance values.
- Individual use license is $39.95.
- Register Entisoft Units on CompuServe: GO CIS:SWREG and use
SWREG #6972.
- Multiple use site licenses:
- $30 each for 2-9 computers
- $24 each for 10-24 computers
- $20 each for 25-49 computers
- $14 each for 50-99 computers
- $10 each for 100-500 computers
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