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, any read in a program will be in inches, or in the unit specified in that program if specified previously to the read. If I am right, the "current unit paper" is always "in" if it has not been changed previously in the specific environment, and for a MBX, the programmer should know what is happening. As far as the Mbwindow is concerned, as a function cannot be used, an empirical way to do it is to issue a "print windowinfo(1002,4)" (the width of the window) then "set paper units "in" " followed by a rerun of the print, and repeat with each unit type until one gets back the same value as the first one. I would appreciate confirmation of my understandingof that question. Thanks Jacques Jacques PARIS e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] For MapInfo support, see the Paris PC Consult enr. site at http://www.total.net/~rparis/gisproducts.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
