Help with Angle Setting for Compass

[Jaklar]

I'm creating an app that needs to have a compass arrow point in the direction of a numerical value that is pulled from a weather service. The numerical value (wind direction) has been parsed from weather data and displays as a simple number, i.e., 346, 25, 86...each representing a point on a compass.

Problem is, if I set my Active (the arrow) to Set Angle, pulling the number from the string, I never get a consistent result. 80 degrees will be pointing at something like 190 or so...anyway, it's off and I need to get it accurate. Seems like it should be a simple thing. I'm obviously missing something but I'm not sure what.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

[Jaklar]

Figured it out.

Set Angle works (in terms of compass point movement) via negative numbers. So I'm grabbing the wind direction from the net, sticking that in a string, and then using a counter to convert the string with -1*value("counter") That creates a negative version of the original number and properly points my arrow in the correct direction.