CurrCon 4.5 build: 9639 released: 2011-12-29 compiled with: Java 1.8.0_131 Currency Conversion Applet. Copyright: (c) 2001-2017 Canadian Mind Products. Java Applet. Download from: http://mindprod.com/products1.html#CURRCON View formatted HTML Manual online at: http://mindprod.com/applet/currcon.manual.html View HTML to run this program online at: http://mindprod.com/applet/currcon.html ---- Notes: You must install the Java JRE to use this program. See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jgloss/jre.html This program requires a manual install! See below. I put out an avalanche of free software into the world, and submit PAD files to hundreds of distribution sites, but I rarely hear back from anyone. What's happening? Does it all just work fine? It is so complicated nobody can figure out how to use it and they give up on it? It is it useful? Since everyone has the source, do people just fix the programs to their liking themselves? Did you have trouble installing? Do I presume you know too much? I would be happy to hear from you about your experiences, positive or negative and your requests for improvements. A one-line email to roedy@mindprod.com would be great. ===> Free <=== Full source included. You may even include the source code, modified or unmodified in free/commercial open source/proprietary programs that you write and distribute. May be used freely for any purpose but military. For more details on this restriction, see http://mindprod.com/contact/nonmil.html If you include any Canadian Mind Products code in your own applications, your app too must be labelled non-military use only. http://mindprod.com/contact/nonmil.html All Java jars and source code are included. If you need the class files or Javadoc, you will have to build them yourself. To streamline the zip downloads, class files and Javadoc have been removed. ---- Prerequisites: This program runs under any OS that supports Java, (e.g.W2K/XP/W2003/Vista/W2008/W7-32/W7-64/W8-32/W8-64/Linux/LinuxARM/LinuxX86 /LinuxX64/Ubuntu/Solaris/SolarisSPARC/SolarisSPARC64/SolarisX86/SolarisX64/OSX/AIX...) so long as you have <><> Java version 1.8 <><> or later installed (32-bit or 64-bit Java). See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/installingjava.html for details. ---- Installing on a PC: Download source and compiled jar files to run on your own machine as an Applet. First install a recent Java JDK or JVM. See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/installingjava.html. To install, extract the zip download with WinZip (or similar unzip utility) into any directory you please, often J:\ -- ticking off the use folder names option. ---- Installing on a MacIntosh: Use Safari to download source and compiled jar files to run on your own machine as an Applet. Safari will automatically unpack the zip into ~/Downloads (version 10.5) [or on the Desktop (version 10.4 and earlier)]. First install a recent Java JDK or JVM. See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/installingjava.html. You may optionally move the download tree to a permanent home. I don't have a MacIntosh, just a PC, so I can't test my Java programs for Mac compatibility. In theory they should work without problems, but in practice that does not always happen. If you have problems please, let me know, preferably with screenshots and complete verbatim error messages. ---- Rebuilding: The zip already contains the necessary jar files, so unless you modify the program, there is no need to recompile the source or rebuild the jar. Configure.java basedir="E:/" in rebuild.xml to the drive where your files are. Use ANT and rebuild.xml, not build.xml, to recompile and recreate the jar. ---- Use: CurrCon is an Applet you embed in your HTML to display prices in a variety of world currencies defaulting to the user's country. It usually works in conjuction with the htmlmacros pre-processor to insert the necessary Applet calls, though you can do it manually. see the manual currcon.manual.html for full details. ---- Version History: 1.0 2001-03-08 initial 1.1 2001-03-20 use Exch objects for initialisation. 1.2 2001-12-20 catch missing params 1.3 2002-03-07 error message for unrecognised currency, bad amount. update exchange rates fix bug so now all Applets don't necessarily share same country. 1.4 2002-03-27 list of exchanges comes in serialised form, easier to update daily without a recompile. 1.5 2002-04-01 guess favoured currency. avoids using Currency class which requires JDK 1.4 1.6 2002-04-24 hashtable for country lookup. show=cCN$A, only create widgets needed. display symbol 1.7 2002-05-14 display large numbers in millions. widths made public for com.mindprod.htmlmacros.CurrCon 1.8 2003-11-01 get Bank of Canada Feed. Automatically delete countries without data today. 1.9 2004-07-07 remove rounding for 7 M style display since format has it built-in. 2.0 2005-06-13 add Trillions, Show millions and billions to one decimal point. name all colours 2.1 2005-07-16 set up with standard bat files. ensure compiled under 1.1 under all circumstances 2.2 2005-08-11 convert non-displaying currency signs to general currency. 2.3 2006-01-01 2.4 2006-02-16 change colour scheme. Currency code not so brazen. 2.5 2006-03-04 reformat with IntelliJ. add Javadoc. 2.6 2007-01-29 2.7 2008-01-29 2.8 2008-01-29 get version number is sync with currConAux 2.9 2008-01-30 safer code for Applet instance interaction 3.0 2008-01-31 locks and other means to deal with interApplet fibrillation. 3.1 2008-01-31 volatile and yield to help smooth interApplet fibrillation. 3.2 2008-01-31 avoid shared variable to smooth interApplet fibrillation. 3.3 2008-02-01 use threads and invokeLater to avoid freezes on Linux 3.4 2008-02-15 lower price. 3.5 2008-09-19 allow commas in parameter amount values. 3.6 2010-02-04 new colours to match mindprod style sheet. wider currency code selector to hold KRW 3.7 2010-05-31 add P code that acts like A, but gives precise value. 3.8 2010-06-02 ensure P code prices update when currency changed elsewhere on the page. 3.9 2010-12-04 compress resource. use pure arrays to avoid generics trouble. 4.0 2011-01-21 new format for BOC files, no longer need boccodes.csv 4.1 2011-01-26 switch to iso currency codes, allow multi-char currency symbols. Allow accents in currency names. Flip from JDK 1.1 to 1.5 4.2 2011-02-19 now supports Windows/IE variable resolution. 4.3 2011-05-07 adjust to new Boc Format, URLs and filenames. 4.4 2011-05-18 adjust to new format of Boc exchange rates. Simplify by eliminating currconaux directory. 4.5 2011-12-29 adjust to new format from Bank of Canada. -30-