Thread: Help me

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    Help me

    Hi ive made a menu for conversions and im not sure how to add the conversions to my menu, i have sub menus: weight, measurement, tempereture and distance, ive done the distance sub menu but cant get my head around doing the kilometres to miles and miles to kilometres conversion, if someone could help i should be able to work the rest out, thanks

    Code:
    #include <stdio.h>
    #include<stdlib.h>
    int menu(void);
    int distance(void);
    int sw;
    int main()
    {
      menu();
    }
    
    
    int menu()
    {
      system("cls");
    
      printf(" Please selcet a catagory !\n");
      printf(" 1.Weight\n");
      printf(" 2.Measurement\n");
      printf(" 3.Tempereture\n");
      printf(" 4.Distance \n ");
      sw = getch();
      sw = sw - '0';
      switch (sw) {
      case 1:
    //weight
        break;
    
    
      case 2:
    //measurment
        break;
    
    
      case 3:
    //tempereture
        break;
    
    
      case 4:
    //distance
        break;
    
    
      default:
        menu();
        break;
      }
    }
    
    int distance()
    {
      system("cls");
      printf(" 1.Mile's to kilometre's\n");
      printf(" 2.Kilomere's to mile's\n");
      printf(" 3.Back to the Main menu\n");
      sw = getch();
      sw = sw - '0';
      switch (sw) {
      case 1:
    //miles to kilometres
        break;
    
    
      case 2:
    //kilometres to miles
        break;
    
    
      case 3:
        main();
        break;
    
    
      default:
        distance();
        break;
      }
    }
    Last edited by Salem; 11-01-2012 at 10:24 AM. Reason: demunged the code

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    that code looks suspiciously like the code from Need help on making a menu system for my program
    since you are copying someone else's work, just copy from that link.

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    It is i used it to do the menu but cant figure out how to do the conversions

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    google 'miles to kilometers' etc and it will tell you what to do

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    Ive tried adding a miles to kilometres conversion but cant get it to run properly

    Code:
    #include <stdio.h>#include<stdlib.h>
    
    
    int menu();
    int distance();
    int sw;
    int main()
    {
        menu();
        float value;
        value=distance();
        printf("%f", value);
        return 0;
    
    
    }
    
    
    
    
    int menu()
    {
    system("cls");
    
    
    printf(" Please selcet a category\n");
    printf(" 1.Weight\n");
    printf(" 2.Measurement\n");
    printf(" 3.Distance\n");
    printf(" 4.Tempereture \n ");
    sw=getch();
    sw=sw-'0';
    switch(sw)
    {
    case 1:
    //code....
    break;
    
    
    
    
    case 2:
    //...
    break;
    
    
    
    
    case 3:
    distance();
    break;
    
    
    
    
    case 4:
    //...
    break;
    
    
    
    
    default:
    menu();
    break;
    }
    }
    int distance()
    {
    system("cls");
    printf(" 1.Miles to kilometres\n");
    printf(" 2.Kilomeres to miles\n");
    printf(" 3.Return to the Main menu\n");
    sw=getch();
    sw=sw-'0';
    switch(sw)
    {
    case 1:
    MtoK();
    break;
    
    
    
    
    case 2:
    //code...
    break;
    
    
    
    
    case 3:
    main();
    break;
    
    
    
    
    default:
    distance();
    break;
    }
    }
    int MtoK()
    {
    float miles, kilometres;
    system("cls");
    printf("\t\tMiles to Kilometres Conversion\n");
    printf("\t\t------------------------------\n");
    printf("\t\tEnter number of Miles: ");
    kilometres=miles/0.621371192;
    
    
    printf("\t\t%2.2f mile(s) == %2.2f kilometre(s)",miles, kilometres);
    printf("\n\n\tPress enter to return to the Main Menu");
    getchar();
              return kilometres;
    }

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    Line 106--> what is miles value? You need to properly initialize it. As of right now miles holds some outrageous random value that was in that memory slot.

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