Decimal to Hexadecimal to Binary to Octal Converter
A question in the macromedia.general.germany newsgroup about number systems brought to my attention that it's not as easy as it sounds to find a practical number system converter online. Sure, there are thousands of converters out there, but most of them are built in Javascript and require you to press buttons or even submit a form to the server - what a waste of bandwidth. So I quickly rolled my own in Flash which doesn't require any buttons as it updates while you are typing:
If you want to use this as a standalone tool, here you can download the swf (just use the right mouse button and select "save as...". If you want to learn how to convert between the different number systems in Flash here is the FLA source.
Posted at June 17, 2004 01:42 PM | Further reading
I am not sure if you searched enough :-)
Of course it is possible to do a javascript update to a textfield. Takes nearly no performance, you don't have to use a flashplugin, you could even do it xbrowser compatible.
After all this solution is fine if you need it directly for javascript ...
Of course it's possible to do the same in Javascript - only none of the converters I found out there used this option. But feel free to add some good links here.
Maybe we can put it here:
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash MX 2004\en\Configuration\WindowSWF\
Hi Mario,
here are both solutions... AS & JS... the flash part is done in another way then your but it also works fine and i added a field with char code.
http://www.armadeos.com/convert/
I had no idea that you could actually do things like that with flash, im well impressed! have to get some more information on flash now! Thanks much for this post!
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