InWords 4.6 build: 9639 released: 2009-05-01 compiled with: Java 1.8.0_131 Jet jet12.0-pro-x86/1.8.0_131 spells out numbers in words in many languages. Copyright: (c) 1999-2017 Canadian Mind Products. signed Java Applet (that can also be run as an application). Download from: http://mindprod.com/products1.html#INWORDS View HTML to run this program online at: http://mindprod.com/applet/inwords.html ---- Notes: You must install the Java JRE to use this program. See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jgloss/jre.html This hybrid program is mainly designed to be used as an Applet in a browser but is can also be used from the command prompt, e.g. under Windows command.exe or JPSoft tcc.exe, formerly called the DOS box. Just clicking the programs in a directory listing will not do anything useful. Just typing the program names at the command prompt will not either. 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 application or 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. To run as an application, type: java.exe %JAVA_OPTIONS -ea -jar J:\com\mindprod\inwords\inwords.jar {put any parms here} adjusting as necessary to account for where the jar file is. ---- Installing on a MacIntosh: Use Safari to download source and compiled jar files to run on your own machine as an application or 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. To run as an application, without parameters, just double click the jar file. To run as an application with parameters, in bash shell type: open Terminal.app cd ~/Desktop java.exe -ea -jar com/mindprod/inwords/inwords.jar {put any parms here} adjusting as necessary to account for where the jar file is. ---- 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. Configure.java your certificate name with environment SET cert=mindprodcert2017rsa Configure.java your certificate password with environment SET jarsignerpassword=sesame Use ANT and rebuild.xml, not build.xml, to recompile and recreate the jar. ---- Use: Shows you how to count in any of the following languages: Bahasa Indonesia Binary Decimal (several variants) Dutch (modern, old and banker's) English (British, North American, Ordinals) Esperanto French German Grams Hexadecimal Icelandic Italian Japanese Martian Metric Metric Prefixes (grams) Norwegian Octal Polish RAM (bytes) Roman Numerals Spanish Swedish Swiss French Tagalog Time Intervals You can enter a number and it spells it out in words: e.g. -12345 to "minus twelve thousand three hundred forty-five" The classes it uses for conversion can be easily cannibalised for your own applications, e.g. writing cheques out in words. for example: String numStr = BritishEnglish.inWords(-1234); will generate the string: "minus one thousand two hundred four" handles longs up to Long.MAX_VALUE, namely: 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 Useful to learn to count in a foreign language. The InWords package classes are also useful for cheque writing or legal documents. You can run a batch test of any language with java com.mindprod.inwords.Polish where Polish is the name of the class handling the language you want to test. You can also run it as an Applet or a standalone GUI application. To install, Extract the zip download with WinZip, available from http://www.winzip.com (or similar unzip utility) into any directory you please, often C:\ -- ticking off the "user folder names" option. To run as an application, type: java.exe -jar C:\com\mindprod\inwords\inwords.jar adjusting as necessary to account for where the jar file is. Why the number 42 as the icon? It is a reference to Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It is the number that represents the deep inner meaning of the universe. What better number to convert into words? Why is the Code Written the Way It Is There is one class for each language. Each class implements the ToWords interface. This makes it easy to for anyone to add new languages without even recompiling the code. It works right to left so that it can avoid the CPU overhead of divisions for high order parts when there aren't any high order digits. It accentuates all asymmetry by using a common loop body for each part of the number. Part of the reason for writing these classes was to understand the structure of human language and unravelling the loops would mask those quirks, even if it made the code simpler. I am trying to demonstrate how humans don't really like simplicity, consistency or regularity. Familiarity masks the bizarre complexity of your native language. It is written hopefully so that a non-native speaker could understand the code. The use of temporary boolean variables in particular was done for clarity at the expense of program size/speed. It is table driven as much as possible so that classes for new lanuages can be written easily by taking an existing driver, changing the tables, then tweaking just a little logic, perhaps cobbling together bits of logic from other language classes, that all work with the same table-driven pattern. A novice programmer might be able to fairly-easily and mindlessly create a first cut by cloning an existing language class similar to his desired language, then get help from a experienced programmer and sample outputs to refine the algorithm. ---- Version History: 1.0 1999-01-12 initial version 1.1 1999-01-13 add Norwegian, Esperanto, British English. 1.2 1999-01-13 correct millionoj bug in Esperanto version. 1.3 1999-01-14 add Bahasa Indonesia 1.4 1999-01-14 add Swedish 1.5 1999-01-15 languages now read from com.mindprod.inwords.Inwords.properties file rather than being hard-coded into the InWords program. add Dutch - minor touchups to other languages. 1.6 1999-01-16 corrections to British English and Dutch. don't load language class until used. 1.7 1999-01-17 add hex, octal, binary, and Martian. 1.8 1999-01-18 add Icelandic remove some redundant remr tests. 1.9 1999-01-18 table driven test add French 2.0 1999-01-18 make refresh protected so can call from inner class without upsetting JDK 1.2 class verifier corrections to French corrections to Dutch 2.1 1999-01-18 add German 2.2 1999-01-18 add old Dutch and Banker's Dutch 2.3 1999-01-19 add Roman numerals minor corrections to German 2.4 1999-01-21 add Polish 2.5 1999-01-22 add American ordinals tidy classes so all language-specific Strings are constants rather than literals. 2.6 1999-02-04 corrections to Swedish and Icelandic 2.7 1999-02-05 add RAM byte measure and Metric gram measure. 2.8 1999-02-07 add Tagalog (Filipino) 2.9 1999-08-11 correct 8 bug in Roman numerals 3.0 1999-10-29 add Japanese 3.1 2000-01-01 3.2 2001-01-01 3.3 2002-01-01 3.4 2004-07-07 add triple plurals to Polish above 1 million.- add about box -new style gridbag 3.5 2005-09-27 Correct bug in display of negative nine digit numbers. - in DecimalDots and DecimalCommas 3.6 2005-12-16 add Javadoc 3.7 2006-10-11 add Swiss Vaudois French 3.8 2006-10-15 reformat with IntelliJ, add Javadoc. 3.9 2006-10-16 new French. rename DecimalSpaces 4.0 2007-05-24 add pad, icon, IntelliJ inspector. 4.1 2008-04-02 add build number to title 4.2 2009-01-20 correct many mistakes in Spanish 4.3 2009-01-21 fine tune Spanish and SpanishForCheques 4.4 2009-01-22 add Italian, JSpinner, convert static inWords to instance toWords. 4.5 2009-01-23 now uses font that will display Japanese 4.6 2009-05-01 corrections to Italian. Tidy package and class comments. -30-