Allowing User To Switch From Metric To Imperial When Ok Button Pressed
Mar 3, 2011
I am making a program that calculates various results with variables entered by the user. What I am trying to do is incorporate a function that will allow the user to switch from metric to imperial easily but only when the ok button is pressed. Now I got all the coding done for the metric and everything is working fine. My problem is when I use the radiobuttons to switch the entered variable in the text box to the desired unit it gives me a 0 or a random number in the textbox...
I also have labels indicating each variables unit which I easily managed to change with the text box using this code. :
'Change Labels to Metric
lblMDegreeC.Text = "Degree C"
lblMDegreeC2.Text = "Degree C"
lblMmm.Text = "mm"
lblMmm1.Text = "mm"
lblMmm2.Text = "mm"
lblMm.Text = "m"
lblMm2.Text = "m"
lblMm3.Text = "m"
lblMDegreeC3.Text = "Degree C"
I created all the coding to convert the metric variables to imperial. My problem is changing the textbox text when the user switches the units during run time. The labels change without a problem but the textbox never works. I have attached the coding for the file.
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Apr 1, 2009
I am having a bit of an issue and would like some opinions. I have a settings class that I use in my program that gets passed around to various pieces of the program. When the program exits, the settings class is serialized out to an xml file. When the program starts the settings class is serialized back from the xml file.If the program doesn't find an existing xml file, the defaults in the class are used and a new xml file is created when the program exits.This all works well. Here is a trimmed down version of my settings class:
Public NotInheritable Class UserSettings
Private _Length As Double = 10 'feet
Private _Name As String = "Inert Material"
[code]....
The problem that I am having is that if the program units are metric, then the default values are always converted in the constructor and the xml serializer then stuffs the values that exist in the configuration (over writing the converted default value which is what I want) into the proper properties. The reason for this behavior is to make sure that that new properties that don't exist in the xml file have a proper default value when metric units are required.
It seems wasteful to convert all of the default values every time when working with metric units? Is there a better way to do this? My full class has currently about 15 default values that need to be converted to metric equivalents. Ideally I would only like to convert values that haven't come from the xml file.
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Jun 1, 2011
When the program exits, the settings class is serialized out to an xml file. When the program starts the settings class is serialized back from the xml file.If the program doesn't find an existing xml file, the defaults in the class are used and a new xml file is created when the program exits.This all works well. Here is a trimmed down version of my settings class:
Public NotInheritable Class UserSettings
Private _Length As Double = 10 'feet
Private _Name As String = "Inert Material"
[code].....
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[Code]...
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My program needs to convert the variables users enter in textboxes from metric to imperial and vice versa so the user can switch units at any time during run time and have the values in the textboxes display the correct value. The problem is that for example if the user initially enters all his values in metric when converting I will be displaying the rounded value of the imperial value. If the user initially enters his values in imperial, when converting I will be displaying the rounded value of the metric value.
But the problem occurs when then user switches back to the original units all the values go to 0 because in the coding for my radio button I set the txtboxes to the rounded xxx value. How to code the radiobuttons to detect what unit was initially selected to set the right values. What I tried doing was set a counter on the radio buttons to determine which one has been pressed more often... but there has got to be a better way to do this..
Imperial Radio button:
Private Sub optImperial_CheckedChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles optImperial.CheckedChanged
'Change Labels to Imperial
lblMDegreeC.Text = "Degree F"
lblMDegreeC2.Text = "Degree F"
[Code] .....
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