MI Frame objects in MapBasic

1999-08-20 Thread Gary Searles
Hi all, I sent the below questions to MapInfo Tech recently. While waiting for a response, I thought I would post it here to see if anyone has any answeres. thanx in advance gary I have some questions about creating a layout frame into an object variable. According to the book this can be

MI Footprints

1999-08-19 Thread Gary Searles
Hi all, Does anyone know of a good source for US Nationwide government building locations? A point file would do, but a file(s) containing building footprint polys would be best. Free would be nice too. thanx gary -- To

Re: MI LineObejct

1999-08-11 Thread Gary Searles
Michael, MapBasic uses an ObjectGeography() function to return various info about objects. In your case, you would want to define four object variables ( dim x1,y1,x2,y2 as float ) to represent the coordinate pairs for the beginning and ending nodes of the line. Then populate the variables

Re: MI SQL

1999-08-06 Thread Gary Searles
Through MB, if you use an object variable to represent the polygon(s) and then do your multiple query against the variable instead of the table obj the query will run much faster. gary "Adi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/06/99 06:04AM Dear List members. I have one polygon table and few point

Re: MI MB: Universal Translator from MapBasic

1999-08-05 Thread Gary Searles
I asked this question of MapInfo Tech Support a couple of months ago regarding v5.0. They told me it was not possible to control the UT or ArcLink through Mapbasic. If anyone knows of any way to run these tools other than "manually", I would very much like to know also. thanx gary