Problem with settings on Macbooks

See the new developer FAQ wiki, and the section abouty type checking/verifying settings.  You may be getting a string when you expect a float for example.

Thanks, but the error occurs in GarminExpress, long before my code has the chance to run and verify the type.

Oh, ok.  It works in GE Win and GCM, and the Connect IQ app??

How are you defining the property?  With a type="number"  property and GCM/Android, or GE/Win, you can not enter a decimal point.

the setting.xml (and that's what determines what GarminExpress shows, and how it acts) contains

<setting propertyKey="@Properties.homeLatitude" title="@Strings.homeLatitudeTitle" prompt="@Strings.homeLatitudePrompt">
        <settingConfig type="numeric" errorMessage="@Strings.homeLatitudeError" required="true" min="-90" max="90"/>
    </setting>

so the type is "numeric" which i assume allows both integers and floats, since the list of allowed attributes here is just

{list, boolean, numeric, alphaNumeric, phone, email, url, date, password}

type="number" or type="float" are not valid attributes for a type of a settingConfig, at least not according to the documentation.


Again, I'm asking about the property itself, not the settings .  For example:

<property id="tz0" type="number">0</property>

The associated setting is what you've been posting,in my case it's this for the property :

<setting propertyKey="@Properties.tz0" title="@Strings.tz0">
<settingConfig min="-12" max="12" type="numeric"/>
</setting>

from properties.xml :

 <property id="homeLatitude" type="float">51.267202</property>

should be fine, no?