[Mapbender-dev] Strange IE8 error: "Anzahl der Bruchstellen ..."

[Michael Schulz]

Hi Devs,

yesterday i noticed a strange IE8 script error, that sometimes occurs
when the function convertPixelToReal in map_obj.js is is called:
"Die Anzahl der Bruchstellen befindet sich außerhalb des gültigen Bereichs."

I wonder if this is special to the customized application i'm using or
if others can reproduce this error (Mapbender 2.6.1). Activated
debugging shows the following:

This is the line where the error happens:
return new Point(posX.toFixed(-digitsX), posY.toFixed(-digitsY));

the error occurs, when the value of digitsX is positive and thus is
turned into a neagtive value through "-". If I understand it correctly
the value of digitsX is dependant on the scale, but usually the value
is > 0 (unless you have a pretty small scaledenom).

toFixed should actually turn a Number into a string with the specified
number of digits after the decimal point, eventually rounded or filled
up with "0"s. In FF I noticed a rather strange behaviour also: FF
throws no error when giving toFixed a negative value, it rounds the
value on the digits before the decimal point:

<script type="text/javascript">
var n = new Number(352834.120912);
document.write(n.toFixed());
document.write(n.toFixed(3));
document.write(n.toFixed(-3));
</script>

gives:
352834
352834.121
353000

IE8 throws the described error on the last line of this test script.

Update: I just found that this code was introduced rather recently,
wrt ticket http://trac.osgeo.org/mapbender/ticket/557.

Thx for any thoughts ...

Cheers, Michael


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