// -*- Mode: C++; c-basic-offset: 2; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-brace-offset: 0; -*- // units.cpp // // Part of KVIEWSHELL - A framework for multipage text/gfx viewers // // (C) 2003 Stefan Kebekus // (C) 2006 Wilfried Huss // Distributed under the GPL #include #include "length.h" #include "kvs_debug.h" class unitOfDistance { public: float mmPerUnit; const char* name; }; unitOfDistance distanceUnitTable[] = { // Metric units {1.0f, "mm"}, {1.0f, "millimeter"}, {10.0f, "cm"}, {10.0f, "centimeter"}, {float(100.0*10.0), "m"}, {float(100.0*10.0), "meter"}, // Imperial units {25.4f, "in"}, {25.4f, "inch"}, // Typographical units {float(2540.0/7227.0), "pt"}, // TeX points. 7227points = 254cm {float(25.4/72.0), "bp"}, // big points, 1/72 inch as used in Postscript {float(25.4/6.0), "pc"}, // pica = 1/6 inch {float(25.4/6.0), "pica"}, {float(25.4*0.0148), "dd"}, // didot points = 0.0148 inches {float(25.4*0.0148), "didot"}, {float(25.4*0.178), "cc"}, // cicero points = 0.178 inches {float(25.4*0.178), "cicero"}, {0.0f, 0}, }; float Length::convertToMM(const QString &distance, bool *ok) { float MMperUnit = 0.0; int unitPos = 0; // position of the unit in the string // Check for various known units, and store the beginning position // of the unit in 'unitPos', so that distance[0..unitPos] will hold // the value. Store the number of mm per unit in 'MMperUnit'. for(int i=0; MMperUnit==0.0 && distanceUnitTable[i].name != 0; i++) { unitPos = distance.lastIndexOf(distanceUnitTable[i].name); if (unitPos != -1) MMperUnit = distanceUnitTable[i].mmPerUnit; } // If no unit has been found -> error message, set *ok to false and // return 0.0. if (MMperUnit == 0.0) { kError(kvs::shell) << "distance::convertToMM: no known unit found in the string '" << distance << "'." << endl; if (ok) *ok = false; return 0.0; } QString val = distance.left(unitPos).simplified(); return MMperUnit*val.toFloat(ok); }