Convex by Tero Kivinen and Simo Säteri www-site: http://www.acr.fi/convex/ Description ----------- Convex is a easy perl program that allows you to convert numbers from one currency to another. Its user interface is designed to be extremly fast to use for normal www etc use. Compilation ----------- Unpack the distribution by saying tar zxvf convex-x.x.tar.gz or gzip -cd | tar xvf - After the distribution has been unpacked cd to the directory created and run the configure script: cd convex-x.x ./configure After that just say make install to install the package. How to use convex ------------------ When you start convex it gives you two currency popup widgets and one text edit widget. You can select the source and destination currencies from the popups and then you can simply select a number for example from web page and move the focus to the convex program. The convex will immediately take the number you have selected put it in the edit box and convert it to the destination currency. It will also change the selection to be in the destination currency, thus you can simply paste that to calculator or similar when count sum of items you are selecting from the web. The convex program has quite a lot of start options and a configuration file which can contain the same options. The convex will fetch the up to date currency rates from the web page given in the config file. By default it fetches the rates from the www.yle.fi. Reporting bugs -------------- If you find a bug or have a feature request send them to convex-bugs@acr.fi. Tero Kivinen kivinen@iki.fi http://www.iki.fi/kivinen/