Re: dm colour rules with -ve values

[kerstien@luke.atdiv.lanl.gov (Deb Kerstiens)]

David wrote:

> I'm trying to use dm colour rules to change the colour of a text monitor
> according to the value of a database field of type double. For values of
> 0.0 or greater this works fine but I can't get it to work with negative
> values; it behaves as if the expression is always false.
> 
> The rule in the edd report looks like:
> 
>                 name="test"
>                 info[0] {
>                         chan="$(C)"
>                         value="-1.0"
>                         connector="use"
>                         comparator="less than"
>                         clr="1"
>                         RISCpad="0"
>                 }
> 
> Should this work ? If not, is there any other way of doing what I want ?
> 
> ===============================================================
> David Terrett                    Space Science Department
>                                  Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
> D.Terrett@rl.ac.uk               Chilton, Didcot
>                                  Oxfordshire
> Tel: +44-1235-446478             OX11 0QX
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> 
> 

It should work.  What version of edd/dm do you have?  I'll
check it out.

Deb
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