fixedAspectRatio="false" - Spurious Error Message

[Paolo F Cantoni]

Setting:
fixedAspectRatio="false";
 in a shape script generates the  spurious error message:

Error: Invalid value for orientation. Acceptable values are: "nw", "n", "ne", "e", "se", "s", "sw", "w", "nw",  and "center"'false

Reported,
Paolo

[«Midnight»]

I don't agree.

The message is far from spurious, there's a real error around here somewhere.

As to the text displayed, this might be long-awaited real proof [I couldn't resist] that not everyone prefers Clayton's.

[Paolo F Cantoni]

I don't agree.

The message is far from spurious, there's a real error around here somewhere.

Well, if I set the value to true, the error goes away.  And even with the error message displayed the shape script works EXACTLY as I expected.

Since there's NO indication of which line is being complained about and if you remove the line completely, the error goes away.  I have no evidence that the message isn't spurious.

I discovered the "spuriousness" of the error when I had a working shapescript and accidentally pasted the line (having thought I copied some other code - you know how sometimes a "Copy" doesn't "take").

Anyway, I'll wait Sparx's response.

Paolo

[Paolo F Cantoni]

Sparx have acknowledged the spurious message, but they point out that the documentation:

fixedAspectRatio

Set to true to fix the aspect ratio. Do not use if you do not want to fix the aspect ratio.

means that:  fixedAspectRatio="false" is actually invalid syntax.  The inverse of  fixedAspectRatio="true" is the absence of the  fixedAspectRatio entry.

My reply is that this form of grammar is confusing.  By all means let the absence of  fixedAspectRatio imply  fixedAspectRatio="false".  But that should NOT make  fixedAspectRatio="false" invalid syntax.

Thoughts?
Paolo

[«Midnight»]

Unary? Oolean? Single-valued logic?

Or perhaps an unalterable truth. The possibilities sound exciting.