Re: MI: Getting Text From Text Object

[Bob Young - www.bydesignwales.demon.co.uk]

Hi Declan

Yes - you can do this with ObjectInfo. Not only will ObjectInfo tell you
what object type is, if the object type is text it will tell you what
the text is.

So you could use

Select where ObjectInfo(Obj,OBJ_INFO_TYPE) = OBJ_TYPE_TEXT into DECLAN

then 

Update Table DECLAN
and set your new field to ObjectInfo(Obj,OBJ_INFO_TEXTSTRING)

If you use mapbasic include "mapbasic.def"

If you do the above in MapInfo then use the numbers instead as below.

OBJ_INFO_TYPE = 1
OBJ_TYPE_TEXT = 10
OBJ_INFO_TEXTSTRING = 3

HTH !
(Hope this helps)



Regards


Bob


In message <l03102802b45264351013@[209.112.158.30]>, Declan Troy
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Mappers,
>
>In the last few days there has been a bit of a flurry of questions about
>text: how to select text objects, or selecting text in fields. I have a
>variant not addressed yet....
>
>Is there an easy way to transfer the text of a text object into a field?
>I'd like to, for example, be able to use the update column command to take
>whatever infomation in in a text object and move it into a field associated
>with the object. Is there a variable associated with each object that
>contains this information? Any ideas??
>
>Declan
>
>
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