Apologise in advance if this has been covered before and I'll admitt
that my experience in MapBasic is limited.
Basically, I have a layout. I want to automatically update some text in
the layout.
I have been able to identify the text I wish to change via the "fetch"
and "objectinfo()" commands in my
very basic .mbx program.
However, I am having major difficulty trying to use the "Alter Object"
statement.
Since (or as I understand it) that the Alter Object statement requires
an object variable (therefore referenceing and object or more
specifically in my case, a text object), I have tried using the create
text into variable command (even though the text is already there)
So, my program looks a little like this:
......create text into variable myobj txt_var ..... etc 'where txt_var
is a variable of the existing text.
then I go:
Alter Object myobj info OBJ_INFO_TEXTSTRING, "New Text".
Obviously, I have something fundamentally wrong somewhere and I am not
convince that the create text into variable command is the correct way
to go.
Are there other options?
Thanks in advance
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Tony Elson
GIS Analyst
Geographic Technologies Limited
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Auckland, New Zealand
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