#64 Calculator plugin: actions for base conversions on selection

[Sridhar]

A plugin can be developed to convert the selected numbered text in the text area of the editor into various formats such as Octal, Binary, Hex. The number could also be converted into other scientific notations.

[Alan Ezust]

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Alternately, someone could add the actions to the Calculator plugin which already knows how to do all the conversions,
then it's just a matter of binding the actions to shortcuts.

[Dale Anson]

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That should be straight-forward. I haven't looked at the Calculator code in a while, but I recall it being fairly clean. I haven't looked at JCalculator yet, does it provide this sort of functionality? Could JCalculator and Calculator merge in some useful way?

[Sridhar]

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I have actually created a macro for this and i think it can go into the Text Menu under macros. I tested it and it worked fine too.
Shall i go ahead and submit it ?

[Sridhar]

Decimal to Binary

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File Added: Decimal_to_Binary.bsh

[Sridhar]

Decimal to Hex

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File Added: Decimal_to_Octal.bsh

[Sridhar]

Decimal to Hex

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File Added: Decimal_to_Hex.bsh