Unit-Converter

Unit Converter is a KDE application using Qt/QML that provide functionality to convert user entered values into various distance units and currency values.The conversion on currency values happens in real-time based on the inputs received from the market.

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

• To download QtCreator in your laptop, there are certain terminal commands to be executed. They are:

sudo apt-get install qtcreator 
sudo apt-get install build-essential libgl1-mesa-dev 

Download the executable file from http://download.qt.io/official_releases/online_installers/ according to your system requirements. (I use Linux 64 bit)

• Installing the QtCreator

cd ~/Downloads
chmod +x qt-unified-linux-x64-2.0.3-1-online.run

Example: Replace the file name with the one you installed. After this command you are ready to run the installer. Go to the library where the executable file is present.

sudo ./qt-unified-linux-x64-2.0.3-1-online.run

For more reference about QtCreator, you can go through the below mentioned link

Installing

• Fork the repository.
• Clone the repo using the terminal command. Make sure you replace username with your GitHub username.

git clone https://github.com/username/Unit-Converter.git 

• To run the code, type the following commands in terminal.

cd Unit-Converter/  
qmlscene main.qml

Screenshot of the GUI

Built With

• Framework used: Qt Framework (version: 5.9.5)
• OS: Kubuntu 18.O4 (KDE version: 5.47.0)

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License, see the LICENSE.md for more details.