THE MENU

With the menu you have access to nearly all program functions. Many of these functions are accessible by visible components or popup menus. This documentation describes each menuitem available in the application.

- Main
- Source
- Target
- Edit
- Navigation
- Configuration
- Help

Main
Count units and categories
Counts all units and categories the NumericalChameleon can handle.

Restart
Starts the program again. All configuration data will be read again.

Quit
Quit the programm.

Source
Undo
Undo the latest change you have made in the textfield "source".

Redo
Redo the latest change you have made in the textfield "source".

Cut
Cuts the selected area in the textfield. If nothing is selected, this action clears the textfield.

Copy
Copy the selected area to the clip board.

Paste
Pastes the content from the clip board, if it is text.

+1
Increments the source value by one.

-1
Decrements the source value by one..

Set value to default
Sets the value to default

Find unit
Opens the dialog "Find unit".

Select default unit
Selects the default unit

Target
Copy
Copy the selected area to the clip board, so other applications are able to work with the results of the NumericalChameleon.

Set significant figures
Sets the cursor on the textfield, where you can enter the precision. This feature supports up to 1000 figures after the decimal point!

Find unit
Opens the dialog called "Find unit".

Select default unit
Selects the default unit

Speak number
If the category "Spoken numbers" has been selected, the NC is able to speak numbers with a human voice. A soundcard is required.
ATTENTION: The soundfiles must be downloaded separately. For more information visit http://www.jonelo.de/java/nc/index.html. The NumericalChameleon 1.6.0 supports the uncompressed wav and .au format only. For future releases it is planned to use the lighter and free Ogg Vorbis Format (MP3 is protected by patents). Unfortunately, IMHO the available Java implementation of Ogg Vorbis is poor. Therefore only .wav and .au are supported.

Stop talking
Stops any sound.

Edit
All menu items under this menu have direct influence on the build-in editor.

Undo
Undo the latest change you have made in the textarea.

Redo
Redo the latest change you have made in the textarea.

Cut
Cuts the selected area in the textarea. If nothing is selected, this action clears the textarea completely.

Copy
Copy the selected area to the clip board.

Paste
Pastes the content from the clip board into the editor, if it is text.

Notice
The current conversion will be noted to the editor.

Make list
Opens the dialog called "Make list".

Set format for notice
Opens the dialog called "Set format for notice".

Set font size
Set the font size for the build-in editor. It is useful for presentation purposes for instance.

Insert HTML-Header and -Footer
Inserts a HTML-template.

Load
Load a file into the editor.

Save
Save the content of the editor to a file.

Navigation

Favorties
Under this menu item you can select favorites from a list. You have to add favorites first to see them in the list.

Favorites/Add to favorites
Bookmarks the current selection and stores it to a list.

Favorites/Manage favorites
Opens the dialog called "Manage favorites".

Favorites/Cancel
Cancels the current favorites selection.

Filter
Under this menu item you can select category filter form a list. You can create your own category filters.

Filter/No filter
returns to a state when you haven't applied any filter. All categories will be visible again.

Filter/Cancel
Cancels the current filter selection.

Find/Find unit in source
Opens the dialog called "Find unit".

Find/Find unit in target
Opens the dialog called "Find unit".

Find/Find category
Opens a simple dialog to search for a category.

Switch Source/Target
Switch "source" with "target". This menuitem is disabled, if a category is not able to perform a symmetric conversion, e. g. module "Spoken Numbers".

Color Picker
Opens the dialog called "Color picker".

Date Picker
Opens the dialog called "Date picker".

Update exchange rates
Opens the dialog box called "Exchange Rates". See also "Update exchange rates at the commandline" and "Exchange rate filters".

Tables
Shows static tables.

Phonetic alphabets
Opens the dialog called "Phonetic alphabets".

Configuration

View
The graphical user interface changes it's view when you select one of five menuitems.

Miserly: menubar, source, target and statusline are visible only.
Economical: Shows the category combobox additionally
Standard: Shows all buttons for full control of areas "source" and "target" additionally.
Luxury: Shows also the edit area, so all components of the graphical user interface are shown.
Maxium: Like Luxury, but shown in the maximum screen size.

Look and Feel
Allows you to select a new Look and Feel. For more information read Look&Feels.

Language
Selects the language for the application. For more information read Language

Categories/Reload categories
This is useful, if you have modified categories manually. Read "Categories"

Units/Reload units
This is useful, if you have modified or added units manually. Read "Units"

Options
Opens the dialog called "Options"

Help
Homepage
Goes to the Homepage of the NumericalChameleon: http://www.jonelo.de/java/nc

Support
Prints environment values, useful if you have trouble with the NumericalChameleon.

Manual
This manual. The language of the manual is dependent on the actual lanugage selection. For the manual, english and german are supported.

About
Shows information about the program (application logo, application version and author). Furthermore the GPL-License and some worthfully notes about the contributors.