Adder

For a shared household keeping both purse and bank account separate, a regular balance of expenses is a constant source of happiness. Those who possess a calculator while being able to use it error-free may consider themselves fortunate. Those who prefer to create a little program instead, as an expression of procrastination, may be lucky, too. Members of the latter group who have the impression that they are not alone on this planet even upload their work for download.

The aim of this program is to enable its users to copy arbitrary receipts—fast. Currently, there is no manual available. As Adder may be simple, but not self-explanatory, I provide a little overview as a substitute:

Usage

Central element of usage is the text field for numeric input which stays focussed all the time. Submit input for calculation by hitting the return key; this will also clear the text field for further input. Submitting an empty text field is interpreted as repeating the preceding input. Numbers entered may start with a minus sign for negative values which means a negative expense, ergo a credit. By default, values containing no decimal symbol (dot or comma) are divided by 100, i.e. they are interpreted as values in the smaller monetarian unit (cent). You can change this behaviour in the menu.

Next to the numeric text field, there is a list box containing the names of people you want to calculate expenses for. For the first input, this list box is empty. You can prepend or append a name to the number you enter. For example the input «5045Paula» creates a person entry named «Paula» and registers an expense of 50,45 € for her. As long as you do not prepend or append other names and do not change the selection of this list box, all further input is interpreted as expenses of Paula.

Features

Licence

Adder is available for free under the GNU General Public Licence. This means that source code is available and may be altered. It also means that any new software incorporating even parts of the source automatically has to be published under this licence, too.

Credits

Download & run

There are three versions available: an executable JAR file (download, save, double-click), a Java Web Start application (just click the link below), and a ZIP archive containing the source files.

Executable JAR Java Web Start Sources
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