Gold to ingots calculator

Gro'bul · Post by **Gro'bul** » Sun Sep 14, 2003 4:35 am

bored so I made a program where you type in the gold, and it translates it into ingots and gold.

http://www.angelfire.com/alt2/majham/go ... ulator.zip

right click save as

simple, easy to use, handles errors, helpful when alt-tabbing out, just mainly for when your like "okay that will be 1235 gold" and the other person is like"how many ingots and gold is that?" and you like uhhh "wait a sec".

Albernon · Post by **Albernon** » Sun Sep 14, 2003 5:19 am

lol, I did not think most players in Illarion can't even do some simple math with a calculator. No offense tho

Good job.

Gro'bul · Post by **Gro'bul** » Sun Sep 14, 2003 5:40 am

yeah but if you take gold 1234, divided by 250 you get like 4.230987 or something, this is exact and to the point.

maybe they could hook it into the game?

paul laffing · Post by **paul laffing** » Sun Sep 14, 2003 1:00 pm

How realistic would that be?

Armil Darken · Post by **Armil Darken** » Sun Sep 14, 2003 3:22 pm

Thats sorta dumb, make it where it divides by 250, than displaies the remainder. yeah and i thought people her werent "Stupid" and could do simple math.

Gro'bul · Post by **Gro'bul** » Sun Sep 14, 2003 5:15 pm

ok I didn't ask for an evaluation on my code, and accually it doesn't display the remainder. exact code:

lblgold2.Caption = Val(txtgold.Text) - Val(lblingots.Caption) * 250

Modulus is used for displaying the remainder, and its for lazy people like me. Modulus also rounds to the tenths automatically and I didn't want to fidget with it and make it work right.

@paul: how realistic is being able to see how good you are at something?
maybe type in functions in the chat box and only you can see the answer?

Turnupto · Post by **Turnupto** » Sun Sep 14, 2003 8:36 pm

Nice program but why can't everybody use his brain? It isn't that hard, come on.

Glosin Ironstar · Post by **Glosin Ironstar** » Sun Sep 14, 2003 8:38 pm

nice job. I think it is a handy little programm.

Gro'bul · Post by **Gro'bul** » Sun Sep 14, 2003 9:25 pm

http://www.angelfire.com/alt2/majham/calculator.zip

I also added another part so you can do ingots and coins to just coins.
Any other calculator or small program suggestions welcome.

Gro'bul · Post by **Gro'bul** » Mon Sep 15, 2003 7:06 am

woowoowoo added another part, you enter the cost of an item, the amount of the item, and voila calculates how many ingots AND gold the batch will cost.

http://www.angelfire.com/alt2/majham/calculator2.zip

Glosin Ironstar · Post by **Glosin Ironstar** » Mon Sep 15, 2003 2:41 pm

Good job this was a great idea for the merchant on the go

Gro'bul · Post by **Gro'bul** » Tue Sep 16, 2003 7:33 am

Ok now I'm starting on my SMACC calculator,when it starts you will click on a catagory, you click the items and it automatically adds up the total. I'm brainstorming some ideas of price adjustment, adding gold to and from the total would not be hard, but chaging the price per item could be. Any suggestions or ideas on what you might want is appreciated.

Also, I'm still wondering if I should put it in with the current calculator.

I'm pretty sure I have a way to do the cost per item change that the user can type. Hmm might take a day or two to complete depending.

Gro'bul · Post by **Gro'bul** » Thu Sep 18, 2003 7:12 am

SMACC calculator will be ready Today (thursday). Need to finish final catagory and tell how to use it, I think it's pretty darn good. prob around 260k, around 30k packed. Odd ain't it?

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Thu Sep 18, 2003 6:03 pm

Woooot... give it a name... SMACULATOR !

Setherioth · Post by **Setherioth** » Thu Sep 18, 2003 10:20 pm

haha yeah, that would be good if they added it into the client. And i dont want to hear about any crap about how it's unrealistic. The whole thing is unrealistic because it's a game! And they sure dind't have computers back then!! Grr sometiems people take this realistic thing too far.

Anyways, yes it would be neat if they added it, you know you could have a third tab for the skills, equipment window.

Armil Darken · Post by **Armil Darken** » Thu Sep 18, 2003 11:04 pm

Ha. Well I have to cogradulate you. But now you got me sorta in a mood to program so I'm gonna try to make a similar thing, but great job.

Gro'bul · Post by **Gro'bul** » Thu Sep 18, 2003 11:18 pm

THe Smacculator is finished, I didn't put errorhandlers on it to reduce size, you shouldn't have a problem as long as you don't enter outrageous values like 34820719367093416734809257134825067090152679, ok?
28kbpacked in zip file, 290 unzipped.

www.angelfire.com/alt2/majham/Smacculator.zip

start the program, choose your catagory, armor/leather armor/cloths are the only subcatagory. then click the buttons and it will add up the values, to clear everything press the clear values button. To add gold to the current values displayed on the button, type in how much you want to add in the textbox, then click a button and it will be totalled up. To subtract gold from the value of an item, type how much gold you want subtracted from it, put a minus infront of the number.

Enjoy!

Gro'bul · Post by **Gro'bul** » Fri Sep 19, 2003 5:52 am

I kind of had to spend a while learning a type of variable that will add up the totals from all the different catagories, or a grand total on the main part of the program. I'm probobly going to make an item counter too, this way you put in amounts for things such as ore/coal and take it times say 1000 instead of one at a time. Any suggestions welcome.

Fingolfin Telrunya · Post by **Fingolfin Telrunya** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 7:53 pm

I'm sorry for this post man, but i'm a vb user to, and i haves some things that could make your program a bit nicer:

1.make it unable to maximize the programme frame, or change its size.
2. make the clear values button a bit bigger, when it's auto-selected, the text is unreadable.
3. in the food section, make a label to explain what the text-frame is for.

4. these were all just details, i know, the rest of the program is verry well.

Adano Eles · Post by **Adano Eles** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 8:01 pm

There's a bug somewhere in it. I tried to calculate 1000 bottles and got 4 ingots and 4 gold. That's not quite correct.

Fingolfin Telrunya · Post by **Fingolfin Telrunya** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 8:05 pm

u are right, probably the button to click empty bottle has a double function, cause if you click on it once, it counts one, if you type an amount and click then, it takes eg: 1000 times the bottle plus the 4 gc for clickin on the button, a common problem on that kind of double function.

Setherioth · Post by **Setherioth** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 9:31 pm

No, the way it works (i think) is when you enter a number into that box it's not how many of that item you want to calculate it's how much gold you want to add on to the item you want to calculate. To calculate two bottles, you'd push the button twice. So when you type in 1000 and push the bottle button it will calculate 2000 gold (4 ingots) plus the 4 gold for teh bottle. Hence the 4 ingots and 4 gold. There's no bug.

I think it would be better though Gro'bul if you made it so that the number you enter into the box is the amount of the item you want to calculate.

Gro'bul · Post by **Gro'bul** » Sun Sep 21, 2003 10:34 pm

the text boxes you type in the amount of gold added/subtracted from the current price of the item. About another text box to type in how many items, easily done, but a little time consuming.

Adano, what you told it to do was to add 1000 gold to the current price of 4 gold, hence 4 ingots, 4 gold.

I made it this way so you could change the price per item.