Bug 102

Summary: [Chameleon]CompassPoint Direction Parameter
Product: Chameleon Reporter: Chris Thorne <cthorne@dmsolutions.ca>
Component: WidgetAssignee: Jeff McKenna <jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: chameleon-dev@lists.maptools.org
Priority: P3    
Version: 1.99   
Target Milestone: 1.99 beta 4   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 2000   
Whiteboard:

Description From 2003-11-12 10:11:00 
DIRECTION="[1|0|7|6|5|4|3|2]"

The direction parameter is defined incorrectly in the documentation, and is also
confusing to the user. The numbers 0 to 7 for the compass directions does not
work. The direction parameter only accepts a string. For example,

DIRECTION="[north|northeast|east|southeast|south|southwest|west|northwest]"

Ideally the parameter should handle either the fully string direction like above
or the short hand version like below lower or upper case.

DIRECTION="[N|NE|E|SE|S|SW|W|NW]"

Finally the Documentation should reflect this change.
------- Comment #1 From 2004-04-06 12:02:53 ------- 
Jeff, please note for the documentation stuff
------- Comment #2 From 2004-04-06 13:29:13 ------- 
ok, accepting bug
------- Comment #3 From 2004-04-08 08:36:57 ------- 
updated version to 1.99
------- Comment #4 From 2004-05-03 10:13:04 ------- 
Changed Target Milestone to 1.99 RC
------- Comment #5 From 2004-11-16 11:22:06 ------- 
fixed to use strings instead of numbers in the documentation.  Unfortunately we
have to go with either the full text or the abbreviations and I'm voting for the
full text.
------- Comment #6 From 2004-11-16 12:53:45 ------- 
If those are our two choices, I vote for full text as well.
------- Comment #7 From 2004-11-16 13:01:40 ------- 
To avoid any confusion lets go for the full text.