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Title: Zaurus Unit Converter
Post by: ksignorini on October 30, 2004, 04:23:04 pm

Has anyone installed ZUC?

I can run it, but the units don't convert right and I can't reach the program's author.

Does anyone have any ideas?

This sounds silly, but this little app was a factor that drew me to the Zaurus.

Thanks,
Kent!

Title: Zaurus Unit Converter
Post by: dougeeebear on October 30, 2004, 04:34:44 pm

I have ZUC installed, but haven't checked it out much.
What units are you trying to convert?

Title: Zaurus Unit Converter
Post by: ksignorini on October 30, 2004, 04:59:25 pm

Well, even a simple 73 Deg F to Deg C doesn't work right.

73 = 23 but when I enter 73 Deg F, and press Go, both windows show -16.6666669!!!

Weird!

Could you try that and see what you get?  Perhaps I have a bad download and could get you to send me your copy if it works.

btw:  What hardware/OS are you running it on?  Did you makecompat it?  Which feed of oz-compat did you use?

Thanks,
Kent!

Title: Zaurus Unit Converter
Post by: dougeeebear on October 30, 2004, 05:40:35 pm

OK, I enter 73 F, and I get 22.778 C.

I am running SL-5500 with Sharp Rom 3.13.

Here is a link to where I got my copy

http://www.killefiz.de/zaurus/showdetail.php?app=206 (http://www.killefiz.de/zaurus/showdetail.php?app=206)

Hope this helps.

Doug

Title: Zaurus Unit Converter
Post by: ksignorini on October 31, 2004, 11:34:05 am

Well, I reflashed Sharp ROM 2.38 to see if the problem was with OZ 3.5.1 and sure enough...

When I use Sharp, ZUC works fine and so does entering numbers and calculations in Hancom Sheet.  In OpenZaurus 3.5.1, all the numbers are mixed up Hancom Sheet (I enter 777 in a cell and it shows me 14) and in ZUC, it's as I explained above.

Any OZ 3.5.1-ers out there know how to fix this?

Thanks,
Kent!

Title: Zaurus Unit Converter
Post by: bluedevils on October 31, 2004, 12:53:06 pm

as an alternative, aren't there calculator programs that also convert?

Title: Zaurus Unit Converter
Post by: dougeeebear on October 31, 2004, 02:21:12 pm

Quote

Well, I reflashed Sharp ROM 2.38 to see if the problem was with OZ 3.5.1 and sure enough...

When I use Sharp, ZUC works fine and so does entering numbers and calculations in Hancom Sheet.  In OpenZaurus 3.5.1, all the numbers are mixed up Hancom Sheet (I enter 777 in a cell and it shows me 14) and in ZUC, it's as I explained above.

Just another reason I stick to standard Sharp Rom.. It's very stable, and everything works very well.

Doug

Title: Zaurus Unit Converter
Post by: jdf on October 31, 2004, 05:35:52 pm

I made a unit converter as a way to learn how to program for the zaurus.   I never got much feedback after it was initially made, and I have been away from the zaurus since then!  I might be getting back into some programming this winter, I hope!  Maybe I could improve it. I only tried on sharp ROM for 5500 and it was doing the calcs correctly:

You could try the results here:
http://www.delferro.net/zaurus/ (http://www.delferro.net/zaurus/)

Or look over the posts and help I had making it from this boards here:
https://www.oesf.org/forums/inde...wtopic=2505&hl= (https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=2505&hl=)

And these discusions we had about setting up the developer environment:
https://www.oesf.org/forums/inde...wtopic=2045&hl= (https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=2045&hl=)
https://www.oesf.org/forums/inde...owtopic=431&hl= (https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=431&hl=)

JDF

Title: Zaurus Unit Converter
Post by: ksignorini on October 31, 2004, 05:43:12 pm

JDF,

The location does not seem to be working.

Thanks,
Kent!

Title: Zaurus Unit Converter
Post by: jdf on October 31, 2004, 10:15:20 pm

Anyone else having problems with URL.  It seems to work fine for me.

http://www.delferro.net/zaurus/ (http://www.delferro.net/zaurus/)

Title: Zaurus Unit Converter
Post by: ksignorini on October 31, 2004, 10:26:52 pm

The link worked now...maybe server was on the blink earlier?

Anyway, I'll give it a go.

Thanks!
Kent!

Title: Zaurus Unit Converter
Post by: ksignorini on October 31, 2004, 10:39:16 pm

Won't run.

This is what I get running it at the command line:

ucz: error while loading shared libraries: libuuid.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


Any ideas what this is all about?  I tried running it before and after makecompat and I get the same result each time.

Thanks,
Kent!