Re: MI MB: Creating and Committing tables (Urgent!)

2000-09-26 Thread Peter Møller/Kampsax
Hi Chris, The problem is in the Commit Table line. You cannot specify a filename in the way you do it here. You have to enter the full path to the files location, that is either a UNC or a hard-/network drive. Like this: Commit Table x2010dm_TR_100plus As "D:

RE: MI MB: Run Command Limitation

2000-09-25 Thread pel
-- Videresendt af Peter Laulund/MI/KMS - 25-09-2000 12:13 --- Peter Laulund 25-09-2000 11:07 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Vedrørende:RE: MI MB: Run Command Limitation (Document link not converted

MI MB Dangling Nodes

2000-09-25 Thread Possberg, Hendrik (Fa. Microm)
Hello all, for a project I have to copy and move plines and then connect endnodes with endnodes of other plines. After this part of work is done, I´d like to be sure that there are no plines left in the front window with dangling nodes. I would like to integrate this search into a MapBasic Code,

SV: MI MB: Creating and Committing tables (Urgent!)

2000-09-23 Thread Poul Skyum
Sendt: 22. september 2000 11:04 Til: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Emne: MI MB: Creating and Committing tables (Urgent!) I've got some code which takes in some data, does some calculations and then produces a host of other tables... e.g. Select NISLID, R_FLOW, RDNAME, FLOW, FLOW / R_FLOW

RE: MI MB: Run Command Limitation

2000-09-22 Thread David Booth
:18 To: Mike Taylor; 'Mapinfo List' Subject: RE: MI MB: Run Command Limitation I have written the most sophisticated program of all : dim a,b as string onerror goto crash a="" boucle: a=a+"A" b="print "+""""+a+"""&qu

RE: MI MB: Creating and Committing tables (Urgent!)

2000-09-22 Thread David Booth
September 2000 10:04 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: MI MB: Creating and Committing tables (Urgent!) I've got some code which takes in some data, does some calculations and then produces a host of other tables... e.g. Select NISLID, R_FLOW, RDNAME, FLOW, FLOW / R_FLOW "Stres

RE: MI MB: Run Command Limitation

2000-09-21 Thread Jacques Paris
o:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mike Taylor Sent: September 21, 2000 1:04 AM To: 'Mapinfo List' Subject: RE: MI MB: Run Command Limitation Hi again Seems I spat the dummy at the wrong statement. I changed the string (from select to print) that I was sending to run command. eg, From:

RE: MI MB: Run Command Limitation

2000-09-21 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
, U.K. http://www.europa-tech.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jacques Paris Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 4:18 PM To: Mike Taylor; 'Mapinfo List' Subject: RE: MI MB: Run Command Limitation I have written the most

RE: MI MB: Run Command Limitation

2000-09-20 Thread Mike Taylor
will generate the problem on my machine. -Original Message- From: Mike Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 21 September 2000 15:20 To: 'Mapinfo List' Subject: MI MB: Run Command Limitation Hi I seem to have run into a size limitation on the string you can pass to run comman

RE: MI MB: How do I convert PLINE into LINE?

2000-09-18 Thread Erin Rubio
-Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 2:01 AMTo: MapInfo Discussion GroupSubject: MI MB: How do I convert PLINE into LINE? Hi, We collect data using GPS, so a single line (e.g. a vineyard row

Re: MI MB: How to extend a line using MapBasic

2000-09-18 Thread Bigpond
Thanks to all who answered my previous postings - I've got the PLINE conversion working beautifully I'm wading through the hideous maths that Trey sent me. (Thanks Trey - exactly what I was after!). Thanks in particular to those who sent code - it's amazing what you pick up from seeing

Re: MI MB: How to extend a line using MapBasic

2000-09-18 Thread Trey Pattillo
Hello All, In response to Michelle...If all the little quirks don't kick you the math sure will. Here's a great site I found a long while back about "Greate Circle" calcs. It's geared to aviation but the formulas are all there. It can at least make a contribution to the "porcelein reading

MI mi/mb accessing Universal Translator via MB?

2000-09-17 Thread Ian Allan
Hi Can anyone tell me whether its possible to access Universal Translator via MB. It would appear that I can only give my users the options available under EXPORT (mif/dxf). Thanks Ian Allan -- To unsubscribe from this list,

MI MB: How to extend a line using MapBasic

2000-09-17 Thread general
On a similar theme to my previous posting, how would I extend a line in MapBasic - (similar to the functionality in MapInfo that allows you to double click on a line and change the length of the line). Obviously, the line has to remain in the same position, and extend along the same bearing

MI MB: How do I convert PLINE into LINE?

2000-09-17 Thread m . e . smith
Hi, We collect data using GPS, so a single line (e.g. a vineyard row) is composed of (for example) 10 nodes at the start of the line and 10 nodes at the end of the line. (every second measurement we make is converted into a node). Now, I want to average the 10 nodes at the start and end of

Re: MI MB reading binary data

2000-09-14 Thread rajeev saraf
In MB, when you read/write a input file, you can specify the byteorder by saying high or low. THis way you can control the oder of bytes while reading. -- Rajeev Saraf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mappers, Using mb code, under NT, I'm trying to read binary data that was created on a UNIX

RE: MI MB reading binary data

2000-09-14 Thread David Booth
Merseyside Information Service -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 13 September 2000 19:26 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MI MB reading binary data Mappers, Using mb code, under NT, I'm trying to read binary data that was created on a UNIX

MI MB s(t)imulation of info

2000-09-14 Thread Jacques Paris
Does anyone know how to s(t)imulate the info tool from within MapBasic? That should be done with only the x and y of a point rather than using the tool and clicking on that point. Thanks, Jacques PARIS e-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] For MapInfo support, see the Paris PC Consult enr. site at

Re: MI MB s(t)imulation of info

2000-09-14 Thread Spencer Simpson
- Original Message - From: "Jacques Paris" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 3:20 PM Subject: MI MB s(t)imulation of info Does anyone know how to s(t)imulate the info tool from within MapBasic? That should be done with only t

MI MB reading binary data

2000-09-13 Thread SpatialImage
Mappers, Using mb code, under NT, I'm trying to read binary data that was created on a UNIX machine which writes the data most significant byte first. My mb code wants to read binary data as least significant byte first. Anyone know how to work around this short of writing a byte exchanger?

RE: MI MB: VB6 DLL Access from MB

2000-09-12 Thread PEM
Hi, Creating DLL and using them from MB is a big wish from many MB developers. Unfortunately, as Richard writes, VB created COM DLLs that can't be used from MB. But there is a tool made by Desaware that might do the trick anyway. The tools is called SpyWorks and it creates a alias DLL that

MI MB: VB6 DLL Access from MB

2000-09-11 Thread Eric Maranne
Could someone point me to a working example of : how to access a VB DLL from a MB program ? (as well as any indication regarding VB compile flags settings ?) It's possible from VC++ or Delphi, but I need to do it from a VB6 DLL, and I'm stuck ... any workaround appreciated (but I don't want

RE: MI MB: VB6 DLL Access from MB

2000-09-11 Thread Richard . Burkmar
] Subject: MI MB: VB6 DLL Access from MB Could someone point me to a working example of : how to access a VB DLL from a MB program ? (as well as any indication regarding VB compile flags settings ?) It's possible from VC++ or Delphi, but I need to do it from a VB6 DLL, and I'm stuck ... any

RE: MI MB: VB6 DLL Access from MB

2000-09-11 Thread Angela_Mashford-Pringle
Good Day all, Can someone tell me how to print a map in a larger context? I can print the layout shown on my screen, but I would like to print the map at 320 mile zoom on 36"x24" paper. Is this possible? I'm in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated.

MI MB language history

2000-09-07 Thread Jacques Paris
I have just finished compiling a history of the changes in the MapBasic language since the initial Windows 3.0 up to and including 6.0. I have put it in the form of a pdf document of slightly over 150K. It is certainly not a document that could become a substitute to an official publication but

MI MB: edits pending error

2000-09-07 Thread GEOSOLUTIONSQC
Hi, I'm trying to save a SQL query between a native MapInfo table and a registered xls table. But when I do, I get an error message saying "No edits pending for table...". Here's the code: ***

MI MB : list of MB reserved words or parser ?

2000-09-01 Thread Eric Maranne
Hello everybody, After so longtime spent on other programing tools, I'm back in the MapBasic world :-! Just purchased MB6, launched it, and I did feel at home ... no much changes in the editor since ver 1.1 !!! I feel I just can't cope with that anymore ... Could someone provide me with a

MI/MB default 'dialog' font

2000-08-25 Thread Ian Allan
Hi Can anyone tell me if there is a way to change the default font used in dialog boxes to be courier. I'm trying to get columns of text to align in mapbasic, but in the absense of courier, this seems as though it will be impossible. Thanks Ian Allan

Re: MI MB strange bug

2000-08-21 Thread Carol Sheehan
Doug, Yes, I have seen this problem as well in the past. And yes, it is most annoying. I did'nt spend a lot of time back then trying to figure it out - just deleted the white space as you did. If I ever see this problem again I will take a look at non printable characters etc. in an editor to

MI/MB paper units definition scope

2000-08-20 Thread Jacques Paris
I was wandering if my understanding of the scope of the definition of "paper units" is correct. It seems to be limited to the "immediate environment of use", i.e. a mbx or the Mbwindow. There does not seem to be any "communication" between environments. If you change the units in the Mbwindow,

MI MB strange bug

2000-08-20 Thread Doug Pease
Hi all, I have come across what is a really annoying, frustrating and weird bug in my MapBasic compiler. I have found that when I copy code from other unformatted text (ASCII) documents and paste it into MB and then compile it, it almost inevitably comes up with numerous compiling errors. I

MI MB: Essential Tool for Coordinate System, Lost Info and MSG window etc

2000-08-19 Thread Ahmet Dabanli
Hello everybody, I've bored from opening Mapbasic window and writing "set map coordsys window frontwindow()" and Loosing Info/Mesage Window i write a utility and want to share with you, Add this utilility to your startup.wor under Mapinfo installation directory as Run application

MI MB : reshaped object

2000-08-18 Thread Jacques Paris
From a MB application, I grab a selected object (o1=selection.obj) that is reshaped and to it is added one node (using run menu commands 1601 and 1723). I would like to put the modified object into o2. If I do o2=selection.obj (the modified object appearing to be selected) I get anything but o1

MI MB help file. Closure

2000-08-13 Thread Jacques Paris
Thanks to those who answered me already. I am now "equipped" with these two files. I forgot to mention that as I am a MI/MB licensee since version 2 for Dos, I did see any copyright infringement in my request. Jacques Jacques PARIS e-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] For MapInfo su

MI MB help file

2000-08-12 Thread Jacques Paris
In order to complete my library of historical documents, I am looking for the version 3.0 and 4.0 MapBasic help files, If anyone is willing to "help" me with that, contact me please before e-mailing the file; I don't want to crowd the net and my server with many attachments. Thanks In advance.

MI MB compiling error problem

2000-08-02 Thread Doug Pease
Thanks to Dion Duran, Bill Wemple and any others who pursued my problem of the bug with the new Set Window Printer statement. As Bill pointed out it is necessary to use a command string to get this statement to work. I found that the entire statement needs to be run as an alias command for it

MI MB getting info on default printer

2000-08-02 Thread Doug Pease
MB / MI gurus, I am writing a mapbasic application which will need to find out which one of a number of networked printers is the default on the machine it is being run from. Does any one have a function which accesses a Windows library file to get this info, that they might be able to share

MI MB string syntax for right justify

2000-08-02 Thread Jeff Logan
Dear everyone, in an existing table is there a simple way to right justify numerical values in a longitude column already populated with values defined as float? i want to parse the data values starting from the left and i want the spaces to be recogized when i count over using left string

Re: MI MB getting info on default printer

2000-08-02 Thread Trey Pattillo
- From: Doug Pease To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Wednesday, 02 August, 2000 01:57 Subject: MI MB getting info on default printer MB / MI gurus,I am writing a mapbasic application which will need to find out which one ofa number of networked printers is the default on

RE: MI MB compiling error problem

2000-07-31 Thread Bill_Wemple
[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: (Document link: MapInfo -L and Co.)RE: MI MB compiling error problem This the reply I got when I ask tech support. "This is

MI MB compiling error problem - when fixed!

2000-07-31 Thread Doug
se [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2000 6:03 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: MI MB compiling error problem List Gurus I am trying to create an application using the new Set Window Printer statement in MB 6 When I compile my application with the following statement Set

MI MB compiling error problem

2000-07-30 Thread Doug Pease
List Gurus I am trying to create an application using the new Set Window Printer statement in MB 6 When I compile my application with the following statement Set Window FW Printer Name "\\NT1\HP1055CM by HP" Orientation Portrait Copies 1 PaperSize 9(or any other number) I

RE: MI MB compiling error problem

2000-07-30 Thread Dion Duran
TED]] Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2000 6:03 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: MI MB compiling error problem List Gurus I am trying to create an application using the new Set Window Printer statement in MB 6 When I compile my application with the following statement Set Window FW Pr

Re: MI MB Select using string variable

2000-07-26 Thread PEM
Hi Bill, Try this syntax instead: I take it that Population and MyTable is the real names for the table and the column and not variables/constants containing the real names. *** * Dim MySQL as String '1. If

MI MB Select using string variable

2000-07-25 Thread RR mail
This may be simple but I can't get MB 6 ( using MI 5.5) to act on the following Dim MySQL as String MySQL = "Population 1" Select * from MyTable Where MySQL No errors - it just does not resolve MySQL and the 'where' is ignored I CAN put an integer variable in place of 1 Dim

MI MB upgrade??

2000-07-12 Thread Kornelsen, Gerald
I currently use MapBasic version 4.1 We have just upgraded MI to 6.0 Are there enough enhancements in MB 6 to make it worth it? The other factor is that we will be keeping some users in the office on MI 4.12, so any network apps would still need to be written in MB 4.1 Ummm, did I just answer

Re: MI MB: Latest Agony

2000-07-06 Thread Andrew_Dressel
I'm trying to make a single polygon in a single table change colors using MB and I can't seem to find the right MB incantation to make it happen. All I want is to have the single selected polygon on the top layer of my map window be a distinct color from the other polygons around it. And I'd

Re: MI MB: Latest Agony

2000-07-06 Thread Ian Garner
= (pattern, forecolour, backcolour) Ian - Original Message - From: Tim Rood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 6:02 PM Subject: MI MB: Latest Agony I'm trying to make a single polygon in a single table change colors using MB and I can't seem to find

RE: MI MB: how to check if column XXX exists in table TTT

2000-07-06 Thread John Hollingsworth
-L Subject: MI MB: how to check if column XXX exists in table TTT Dear All Apparently, there are no function to know if column XXX exists in table TTT (is there ?) So I built a loop on all columns name to check whether one is equal to XXX. TTT as Alias, tesname as string For i=1 to Nbcolum

Re: MI MB: Latest Agony

2000-07-06 Thread Bill Thoen
Tim Rood wrote: I'm trying to make a single polygon in a single table change colors using MB and I can't seem to find the right MB incantation to make it happen. All I Another MapBasic agony? You might try swallowing a live toad before sitting down to your next MapBasic session. Then

MI MB: Latest Agony

2000-07-05 Thread Tim Rood
I'm trying to make a single polygon in a single table change colors using MB and I can't seem to find the right MB incantation to make it happen. All I want is to have the single selected polygon on the top layer of my map window be a distinct color from the other polygons around it. And I'd

MI/MB Setup routine to install a MapBasic application

2000-07-05 Thread Ian Allan
Hi, I've written a MapBasic application data files that I want to distribute. Can anyone suggest a way to go about writing a setup routine for this? I do not curently have other programming languages such as VB. I could give instructions to simply copy the files accross using windows explorer,

MI MB: Version 6 and Printer Orientation

2000-07-04 Thread owendavid
Hello, Under version 5.5 of Mapbasic I had a dialog box where the user was asked what layout size and orientation they wanted for a print. The user selected from a radio button the paper size (A4 - A0) and clicked on a button which accessed M_FILE_PAGE_SETUP where they could select the

MI MB: Error Message Frustrations

2000-07-01 Thread Tim Rood
ss" error. I admit that I'm not fluent in MB, but there doesn't seem to be a single reference to that particular concept (registering files for access) anywhere in the MB literature that I have. So, I have to appeal to the list for help. As long as I am, does anyone know where, in the MI

MI MB: Error Message Frustrations

2000-07-01 Thread Tim Rood
ss" error. I admit that I'm not fluent in MB, but there doesn't seem to be a single reference to that particular concept (registering files for access) anywhere in the MB literature that I have. So, I have to appeal to the list for help. As long as I am, does anyone know where, in the MI

MI MB - Adding an image to an About Box

2000-06-20 Thread Data Directions
Hi, I have noticed a number of MBX'x have a company logo displayed in the about box. Can this be done in MapBasic and how, given the limited number of controls? Or is it a case of writing a VB or Delphi app just to show the about box. Thanks in advance Lorraine

MI MB color

2000-06-15 Thread Claude Couture
Hi, Is There somebody that knows how we can change automaticly the color of each ligne (from a selection) in batch process with mapbasic. Thank you in advance Claude Couture GeoCom TMS Inc. Responsable de la cartographie 418 650-5500 ext 27 Fax 418 650-3291 www.geocomtms.com

RE: MI MB Sound possible???

2000-06-11 Thread RH Jannini
m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Keith Campbell Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 8:17 AM To: Simon W Fox Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MI MB Sound possible??? Simon, One option is to use the 'Run Program' statement to start another Windows application that will pla

MI MB: intersecting line with polygon

2000-06-08 Thread Jean-Francois Lepine
Hi, I have a table with many polygons and an object variable containing a polyline. I'd like to know, for each polygon intersected by the polyline, the length of the part of the line that falls within it. Is it possible to achieve that through MB? thanks in advance, Jeff Lepine [EMAIL

RE: MI MB: Turning of zoom/resize/pan etc of map window

2000-06-06 Thread Jacques Paris
short scripts. Jacques Parise-mail alternate [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]paris PC Consult (mainly MapInfo app.) www.total.net/~rparis/gisproducts.htm -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Frontier Mapping Pty LtdSent:

MI MB: Turning of zoom/resize/pan etc of map window

2000-06-05 Thread Frontier Mapping Pty Ltd
Hi, Is there any way you can disable the pan/zoom functions for a particular map window? I'd also like to prevent the user from resizing the map window. (I'm setting up title boxes etc and want them to be standard) I've found you can turn AutoScrolling etc off using the Set Map function,

ADD: new versions of MI/MB books

2000-06-04 Thread Jacques Paris
I have rewritten the "MiniGuide to the MapBasic Window", updating it to version 5.5 and expanding its contents noticeably. The "MiniGuide... " and "My Bag o'Tricks" are now available as PDF files taking full advantages of indexing and bookmarks to facilitate research. There are in a format that

RE: MI MB: Zoom to Cosmetic layer

2000-06-02 Thread Jacques Paris
]' Subject: MI MB: Zoom to Cosmetic layer Does anyone know how I might zoom to show all cosmetic objects with MapBasic? These methods do not work: 1. Set Map Zoom Entire Layer 0 (zooms out to show everything, cosmetic or not) 2. Set Map Zoom Entire Layer Cosmetic1 (invalid view layer) 3

Re: MI MB: ErrorHandler

2000-06-01 Thread Ian Allan
Hi Silke, I've had problems with error handling in the past too. I found I could only get the handler to work if it was at the very beginning of a subroutine (right after the DIM statements). Hope this helps Ian Allan Silke Keuerleber wrote: Dear listers, Can anyone tell me, why the

MI MB: ErrorHandler

2000-05-31 Thread Silke Keuerleber
Dear listers, Can anyone tell me, why the following code doesn't force the program to use the errorhandler routine whenever anyfile doesn't exist? sub anysub OnError Goto Errorhandler . .. ... Register Table anyfile TYPE ASCII Delimiter 59 Titles Charset "WindowsLatin1" Into

Re: MI MB: ErrorHandler

2000-05-31 Thread william . forde
Why not check to see if the file exists first this will make the code much easier to read more robust. Sub AnySub If FileExists(anyfile) then Register Table anyfile TYPE ASCII Delimiter 59 Titles Charset "WindowsLatin1" Into anytable else Note "Error opening " anyfile

MI MB Sound possible???

2000-05-30 Thread Simon W Fox
Good morning, I've looked through the archives for any information regarding playing sound through a Mapbasic script. I found several messages asking similar questions, but found no answers. From this I take it that, either it's not possible or no one out there knows how to do it. My question

Re: MI MB Sound possible???

2000-05-30 Thread Keith Campbell
ECTED]'" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MI MB Sound possible??? Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 10:57:17 +0100 Good morning, I've looked through the archives for any information regarding playing sound through a Mapbasic script. I found several messages asking similar questions,

MI MB: Converting points to region

2000-05-25 Thread Warren, Steve
Is there another program available besides ConnectTheDots that will draw a region around selected points. The connectthedots program draws a region around the selected points by the order they appear in the MapInfo table. Therefore, the program does not always create a "nice" region around the

RE: MI MB: Accuracy of Centroidx / ObjectGeography Return Values

2000-05-15 Thread Lindsay Giles
aden [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 10:09 AM To: MapInfo Mailing List Subject: MI MB: Accuracy of Centroidx / ObjectGeography Return Values Good morning, all : Maybe this one has come up before, but I've scanned through the last several thousand MI messages to

MI MB: Accuracy of Centroidx / ObjectGeography Return Values

2000-05-15 Thread Mike Haden
Good morning, all : Maybe this one has come up before, but I've scanned through the last several thousand MI messages to find some reference to the problem without success. So here goes: I have many tables of petroleum wells which were defined as point objects using the standard Lat/Long NAD 27

MI MB: Aligning dialog text

2000-05-09 Thread Tim.Nuteson (Exchange)
Hi - In a MapBasic dialog I'm writing, I need to have a column of dollar figures lined up vertically so the decimals and commas line up with each other. Adding leading spaces does not work, since the MB dialog font contains a variable-width font. Is there a way to force a text string to be

Re: MI MB using a variable in a select statement

2000-05-02 Thread Erick Posner
luck! -- Erick Posner Join AllAdvantage! Earn $ while you surf anywhere on the Web http://www.alladvantage.com/go.asp?refid=cbl286 - Original Message - From: Tim Warman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mapinfo-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 9:45 AM Subject: MI MB using a variable

MI MB using a variable in a select statement

2000-05-02 Thread Tim Warman
Listers, Is it possible to use a string variable in a select statement? The following bit of code doesn't seem to work: Select Wells.Owner, Wells.Owner_Abbr, Wells.Owner_Well_No, YearField_str from Wells, Production where Wells.Primary_Key=Production.Primary_Key and YearField_str0 into

MI MB: Querying overlapping labels

2000-04-28 Thread Jean-Francois Lepine
Hello, Is there a function in MB that can determine if a label object overlap another one (kind of a boolean function)? I'm asking 'cause I have a layer with overlapping labels and don't want to show them(I know that I can set overlapping to off, but then one of the two or three

MI/MB: Text object orientation

2000-04-27 Thread Jean-Francois Lepine
Hi, I had to import a .e00 file containing text objects. Many of them had an orientation. Now, I need to know this orientation so I can put it in anew field which will be used later for labeling purpose (in order to give the labels the same orientation as the text objects). So, my

Re: MI/MB: Text object orientation

2000-04-27 Thread Francois Bergeron
Hi J-F! You can use this function in the Update Column dialog: ObjectGeography(obj, 7)--- same as ObjectGeography(obj, OBJ_GEO_TEXTANGLE) in MapBasic. Hope this help! Ciao!! ___ ||// François Bergeron || //Conseiller en Géomatique || //

MI MB Global and Dim in Project

2000-04-03 Thread Kingsley Gum
I'm not sure whether to define certain variables using Global or Dim in a Project. I have a project comprised of several modules, one module which is used for checking the validity of user input in edittext boxes. I am changing most Global statements to Dim statements (outside of procs) in

MI MB - Note

2000-03-15 Thread Kingsley Gum
At times I use 'Note' inside programs for error checking of variable contents. On a few occasions now I have found that instead of finding errors this method creates errors. This most recently has occurred while assigning values from table columns to variables to calculate and then update other

Re: MI/MB: Splash Screens

2000-03-03 Thread Michael Jenne
Colin, I'm away from the computer where I have the original code to do this, but essentially the way I did it was this: 1) Save your splash image as a TIF or JPEG (I used Adobe Photoshop to do this). Open it (as an unregistered image file) into MapInfo to get your Tab file. 2) In your MapBasic

MI/MB: Splash Screens

2000-03-02 Thread Colin Henderson
To the list, Does anyone know if it is possible to have a splash screen appear when my mapbasic application runs? If so is it possible to code it in MapBasic? Any help greatly appreciated -- Colin Henderson Undergraduate Bath Spa University College mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MI/MB: Splash Screens

2000-03-02 Thread Michael Jenne
Colin, Hate to sound ill-informed, but what's a splash screen? If it's what I think it is, I know how to code it. Mike Jenne At 06:40 PM 3/2/00 +, Colin Henderson wrote: To the list, Does anyone know if it is possible to have a splash screen appear when my mapbasic application runs? If so

RE: MI MB Determining the Base Table of a Query

2000-02-28 Thread Jacques Paris
Consult (mainly MapInfo app.) www.total.net/~rparis/gisproducts.htm -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Landis, Bill @ PhoenixSent: February 23, 2000 8:57 AMTo: MapInfo Mail List 1 (E-mail)Subject: MI MB Determining the Base Table

RE: MI MB Determining the Base Table of a Query

2000-02-28 Thread Thomas Brix Lyng
]] Sendt: 28. februar 2000 15:30 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: RE: MI MB Determining the Base Table of a Query Totally undocumented. A very pleasant discovery I made recently. If you use tableinfo(your_query_name, TAB_INFO_MAPPABLE_TABLE) (code 12 in the MBW) you get the name

MI MB Determining the Base Table of a Query

2000-02-27 Thread Landis, Bill @ Phoenix
Title: MB Determining the Base Table of a Query Anyone know how to determine the base table of a query using MapBasic? For example if Query3 is a selection of block groups from table BG1999, how do I determine that Query3 is based on table BG1999? Thank you, Bill Landis...

MI MB Run Command Confusion

2000-02-26 Thread Roy Chiappini
Hi List, Am having a problem regarding "Run Command" in MB. When MapBasic window is displayed a Table Export results in the following: Export "ralph" Into "C:\ALPHA\ralph.txt" Type "ASCII" Overwrite Delimiter "," CharSet "WindowsLatin1" In Mapbasic: The file name, ralph, will be replaced with

Re: MI MB Run Command Confusion

2000-02-26 Thread Roy Chiappini
Never mind. I figured it out. Don't need the Run Command Some time my dumbness amazes even me. -- Roy N. Chiappini Randa Enterprises [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.srv.net/~ziccardi/randa -- To unsubscribe from this list,

FW: MI MB Shortest Path

2000-02-24 Thread Jure Ravnik
, Jure Ravnik Ecological Engineering Institute Ljubljanska 9 2000 Maribor Slovenia Tel:+ 386 62 300 48 11 Fax:+ 386 62 300 48 35 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Izvorno sporoilo- Od: Jure Ravnik [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Poslano:1. april 1999 7:41 Za: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Zadeva: MI

MI/MB: View HTML within MI?

2000-02-18 Thread Colin Henderson
HELP!! A dissertation project requires the ability to view HTML documents within MapInfo itself (ie; without the use of Netscape or other Browser being open alongside MI) The HTML docs are already created it is just a matter of viewing them inside MI. Is this possible? Can anyone suggest a way

Re: MI/MB: View HTML within MI?

2000-02-18 Thread Andy
pages, or text or image files, to whatever objects you have in your tables. headache over. - Original Message - From: "Colin Henderson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 18, 2000 3:56 PM Subject: MI/MB: View HTML within MI? HELP!! A dissertati

MI MB: Identify Browser Graph Window Tables in MB

2000-02-15 Thread Landis, Bill @ Phoenix
Title: MB: Identify Browser Graph Window Tables in MB Given a Browser or Graph window, how do I determine the name of the table that the windows are generated from in MapBasic? Thanks, Bill Landis...

Re: MI MB: Call dll with a 4Bytes float instead of 8Bytes float?

2000-02-10 Thread Bill Thoen
This is a difficult and messy problem, but I can offer some ideas. First, there's lots of web pages that explain the details of floating point numbers. Microsoft has a pretty good one: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q42/9/80.asp, but there are many others. This trick uses the

MI: MB: Line Intersection MapBasic App

2000-02-09 Thread John Hollingsworth
I have uploaded a line intersection MapBasic app to the Directions Magazine site at the following link. http://www.directionsmag.com/tools/default.asp?a=downloadfilename=IntPn tTab.zipid=248 This program will create a point table of the intersecting points of two line or polyline tables. If

MI MB: Call dll with a 4Bytes float instead of 8Bytes float?

2000-02-09 Thread Franck Martin
In MapBasic I declare the following external function : Declare Function getnodevalue Lib "SomeoneDll.dll" (ByVal Index As Integer, ByVal Code As Integer, Value As Float) As Integer and define the following constant Define EN_PRESSURE 7 when I call the Function with myopen = getnodevalue(

MI MB Why Can't I Open A Saved Query

2000-02-01 Thread Christopher Stephen
G'day Listers, I am having a difficult time trying to understand why I cannot open and display a saved query from an MBX, however I have success when duplicating the commands in the MapBasic Window. The following works in the MapBasic Window: Open Table "C:\Data\Query1.TAB" Map From Query1 The

Re: MI MB: Window Maximize Bug

2000-01-21 Thread Christian Tomsu
, 2000 17:09 Subject: Re: MI MB: Window Maximize Bug Hello Warren and all others, now i`m backfrom my one-week skiing-trip in Austria. i tried to avoid that any user can maximize a window. lets take a look at the background: a program sends a dde-message to a program with a fix

RE: MI MB : get the layer back with former settings after modifying structure

2000-01-18 Thread PERRY Chris
6800 Fax: 61 3 9816 9876 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Francois Molle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 19 January 2000 1:36 To: MAPINFO-L Subject: MI MB : get the layer back with former settings after modifying structure Hi all It is sometimes necessary

Re: MI MB: MapInfo Object Model

2000-01-13 Thread Jacoby
: Thursday, January 13, 2000 1:37 AMSubject: Re: MI MB: MapInfo Object Model Jacoby wrote: Brief History... I've was wondering if anyone has done any work with MapInfo's ProServer. Hi All! Better check with MI if Proserver is a going concern? Or, like a famous parrot, has passed on. To my belief

Re: MI MB: MapInfo Object Model

2000-01-12 Thread Mats Elfström
Jacoby wrote: Brief History... I've was wondering if anyone has done any work with MapInfo's ProServer. Hi All! Better check with MI if Proserver is a going concern? Or, like a famous parrot, has passed on. To my belief, it has been replaced by MapXsite and MapXtreme. Mats.E --

Re: MI MB: How do I query dialog position (Win API?)

2000-01-05 Thread Anssi Joutsiniemi
, January 04, 2000 3:06 PM Subject: MI MB: How do I query dialog position (Win API?) Listers, I have a MapBasic application that presents the user with a dialog when a custom toolbutton is used. I want the user to be able to move this dialog before it is dismissed and have the dialog posted

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