Hi Trevor,
> Very nice solution, Dave. I like simple, elegant and effective
> solutions like this. I was wracking my brain yesterday to come up with
> something like this, but my brain wasn't working. Hah. Good job!
Thanks for the compliments - my head is now a bit bigger :-)
I thought 0 degrees should have been east but thought you were using
a "southern hemisphere" compass :-) Anyway, I went back and checked the
original post :-
> > I have to write a little function to convert a direction=20
> from degrees
> > to a compass -type heading. 0 =3D West. 90 =3D North. E.g.:
>=20
> Something like this... it'll account for >360 degrees, too.=20
> No different=20
> that a bunch of IF statements, though...
which is what I coded for - which only goes to prove that the system
will only be as good as the specification :-)
Regards,
Dave
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