I’m not sure what you mean by the compass? In one of my apps that uses maps, the assumed default is that North is the top of the map. If you rotate the map using a two finger twisting action a black compass automatically shows itself. This was on iOS. I didn’t try it on Android. There are no API calls that let you show or hide the map scale.
Rob
When googling this, I found that there are two calls when using Xcode for displaying both compass and the scale.
mapView.showsCompass = false mapView.showsScale = true
My guess was that the map therefore had an api call to (forcibly) display these items and I was hoping that they were accessible from Corona as well.
If i understand it correctly, the default behavior of the compass is just as you describe it, wehereas the default behavior of the scale is that it is shown when zooming. As far as I can see, in Corona, the first is true but not the second (i.e. the scale is never displayed).
We don’t support those attributes. This would be a feature request that would need to be filed at http://feedback.coronalabs.com
Rob
@Rob: I created the bug report about this 3 months ago (se my post above) but the problem is still there in build 3226. Any indication of when my bug report might be looked at?
Do you have the ticket #?
Yes, it’s 11855441.
I have pinged Engineering.
Any news on this?
I don’t believe this has been worked on. Our staff is very busy with other tasks right now.
Rob