[OpenMap Users] shapefiles - getting the outerRing

Hi again all,

  I was wondering if there was a way to retrieve information about the outer ring of each shapeRecord of a shapefile. It doesnt look like ESRIRecord or any of its subclasses offer any way to look into each record of a shapefile and give you info about clockwise or counter-clockwise orientation of rings. below is a small snippet of code for reference. I have done a shpdump on the shapefiles as well and there doesnt seem to be an indicator of which was would be the outer ring.
    
  shapeFile = new ShapeFile(shpInputfile);
  shapeCount = dbf.getRowCount();

for (int i = 1; i <= shapeCount; i++) {
ESRIPolygonRecord shapeRecord = null;
        
shapeRecord = (ESRIPolygonRecord) shapeFile.getNextRecord();

for (int polyIndex = 0; polyIndex < shapeRecord.polygons.length; polyIndex++) {
    ESRIPoly.ESRIFloatPoly poly = (ESRIPoly.ESRIFloatPoly) shapeRecord.polygons[polyIndex];

.......

}

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