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Added to the TODO list. Thanks!
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris sir, can you please provide some more emoticons on message forum.
It would be great if you add those thumbs up and thumbs down icon , that are already with in Voting control 
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I'd help you but adding more emoticons is a larger task than you would think. How about I meet you halfway: I'll add one of them. Which would you like? The thumbs up or the thumbs down?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: Which would you like? The thumbs up or the thumbs down?
Thanks Boss !!! 
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So is a thumbs down ! ? Oh I see you've added both.
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cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Well in some cultures the thumbs up is an obscene gesture, so I'd say thumbs down is probably safer.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots.
-- Robert Royall
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I think it would be very cool if I could type 10 miles and the cp forum software would automatically enter it as 10 miles (16.09 KM) or -10c and it would post as -10c (14f).
I know it seems frivolous but given the global nature of this site and the number of times people post about the weather or the miles per gallon of their car or the price of gas or any number of things I think it would be very cool.
Perhaps the core of it could be an engine that was created as part of a contest here for parsing text and reliably finding measurements and converting them.
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it."
-Sam Levenson
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For anyone interested in trying to implement this, don't forget that US/UK fluid measures aren't the same despite the names. The US gallon is the wine gallon, while the UK uses a slightly modified version of the ale gallon (tweaked to give water a density of 10lb/gal). Both gallons were in use at the time of US independence. I've never found anything on why the US settled on the wine gallon.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots.
-- Robert Royall
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True and the browser supplies the locale so easy peasy. 
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it."
-Sam Levenson
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Only if you're aware of it in advance. Given the degree of mutual misunderstanding that comes up every time MPG numbers for US/UK cars are discussed it's not widely known here, and before CP I'd never even heard of it.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots.
-- Robert Royall
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dan neely wrote: Given the degree of mutual misunderstanding that comes up every time MPG numbers for US/UK cars are discussed it's not widely known here, and before CP I'd never even heard of it.
Well that's a bit of an obscure case I'm thinking more about temperatures and other basic units of measurement, but in any case it would certainly alleviate a little misunderstanding don't you think?
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it."
-Sam Levenson
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dan neely wrote: I've never found anything on why the US settled on the wine gallon.
"We like standards so much, we'll make some of our own".
That's aquote from somewhere. Wish I could remember where.
Iain.
Codeproject MVP for C++, I can't believe it's for my lounge posts...
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That's something Bob would say. I mean this Bob[^].
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No thanks. I want my messages to appear as I entered them, and I want to be sure what I am reading is what the author has written.
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"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it."
-Sam Levenson
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It shouldn't be automatic. We should have 2 command buttons (like the formatting buttons that are already there) that'd do this C to F and Km to Miles conversion (and their reverse equivalents). Those 2 are the most common here.
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Yuck from a UI design perspective.
If people really can't stand to have their post modified, how about it just converts at display instead and users can turn it on or off as a feature?
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it."
-Sam Levenson
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IMO an automated footnote providing converted equivalent values and units would probably be acceptable even to people that really can't stand to have their post modified, provided the author of the footnote takes full credit for it 
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Oo, ah. What if I am trying to explain that there are 182-degrees C in a circle  .
Did you see that Bruce Willis movie called "The Whole 8.2296 Meters?"
Winnie the Pooh sings, "Deep in the 40.4685642 hectares wood where Christoper Robin plays..." .
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It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it."
-Sam Levenson
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I am Grey. I stand between the candle and the star. We are Grey. We stand between the darkness and the light.
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots.
-- Robert Royall
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