I worked on these questions for a large government organization recently.
Bart wrote:
>We have build a pretty extensive application in MapBasic. It serves well
as a prototype. Now we want to bring our application to the next level:
bring in more functionality (not necessarily GIS-related processing),
enhance the user interface, interface with MS Office applications,etc. So
we are considering moving to a Visual C++ environment with MapX.
>
>I have a few related questions:
> * Can I implement in MapX ALL functionality, which is offered by MapInfo
Professional (version 6.0)?
No. MapX has no built-in query engine. E.g. it uses the VB database
object to query an access database and map objects are linked to the access
database.
Many other features, like the info tool, have to be created from scratch.
>* Could I use MapX in a Java environment?
Yes
>* How does MapX development compare with Integrated Mapping (control
MapInfo from a C++ client program, basically by sending MapBasic statements
via OLE), both from functionality perspective and a development environment
perspective?
Integrated mapping can access almost all mapinfo functionality that
mapbasic can access.
>* Purely from a development environment perspective, the new ArcInfo
version (with MapObjects) seems more attractive. Any comments?
Why?
>If people have gone to a similar transition: any other suggestions,
caveats, tips are very welcome.
It can take three times as long to build in mapx vs mapbasic because of the
'wrappers' that are needed. The end result will be less prone to OLE
system errors than an integrated app and more attractive and less expensive
than a mapbasic deployment.
Good luck
Brad
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