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rarsa

I had some time to spare and decided to tackle cleaning up a couple of tcl/tk applicaitions included in Puppy that had a rather old look.

I've completelly rewriten the tkConvert utility to make it fully GTK compatible.

This utility lets you convert from almost any measurement unit to another. It includes around 1,000 conversions.

In the process I managed to reduce 2159 lines of code while adding functionality!!,
(Barry, that's 103K. I'm making good in my promisse to give back the space taken by gnocl) I could still reduce around 400 lines of code and in the process add about another 1,000 available conversions and provide an even cleaner interface and make the code even more readable. But for now I think this is good enough.

Here is the GTK version with an Aqua theme (Click to see full size)

Here is the cleaned up tk version (Click the thumbnail to see the full size image)

Dependencies
The GTK version requires Gnocl. If you have a version of Puppy prior to 2.14 you'll need to get it from here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=15639

WhoDo · Posted: Thu 01 Mar 2007, 01:04 Post_subject: Re: TkConvert with a cleaned up UI

rarsa · Posted: Thu 01 Mar 2007, 10:37 Post_subject: Re: TkConvert with a cleaned up UI

BarryK · Posted: Thu 01 Mar 2007, 21:45 Post_subject:

Rarsa,
how much work is involved in converting a Tcl/Tk app from Tk to Gnocl? What about some of the bigger guys, like Ical?

rarsa · Posted: Fri 02 Mar 2007, 01:22 Post_subject:

rarsa · Posted: Fri 02 Mar 2007, 15:45 Post_subject:

rarsa · Posted: Sat 03 Mar 2007, 15:33 Post_subject:

pConvert uploaded!

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=100866#100866

I've completelly rewriten the tkConvert utility to make it fully GTK compatible. I used Gnocl.

In the process I managed to reduce 2159 lines of code while adding functionality !!,

Barry, that's 103K. I'm making good in my promisse to give back the space taken by gnocl.

I could still reduce around 400 lines of code and in the process add about another 1,000 available conversions and provide an even cleaner interface and make the code even more readable. But for now I think this is good enough and going the extra mile would take me at least 8 hours.

Actually the real code is just 230 Lines of code (including spaces)

1000 lines that correspond to the conversions table. Here is where getting creative a lot of redundancy could be cut.

disciple · Posted: Tue 26 Jun 2007, 06:26 Post_subject:

If anybody else ever feels like rewriting it for whatever reason, they may want to think about whether the interface can be improved. Check out the freeware windows convert program at http://joshmadison.com/software/convert/ (there is a screenshot). Personally I find the interface much more efficient.