Ashley, There are some MapInfo add-ons that will place labels automatically, but you'll have to pay for them. Check out Evername http://www.evermap.com/evername.htm and Label-EZ at http://www.maptext.com/capable.html. I'm sure if you do write your own program and make it available free on directionsmag you'll be one very popular guy (not that you aren't already)!
Greg > -----Original Message----- > From: Simmonds, Ashley (PTB) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 00:49 > To: 'Mapinfo List (E-mail)' > Subject: MI-L moving overlapping labels programmatically > > hey people, > > i know i've groaned about labels before, but before i spend some time > looking into the subject any further, does anyone know if there's an easy > way to: > > 1. detect whether labels are overlapping > 2. move labels programmatically. > > the other option is that i could turn autolabelling off for a given layer, > and assign labels to objects individually (there's only ever less than a > dozen objects on this given layer). my thought is that my program could > check the locations of the objects and the current zoom level to figure > out > where the best position for a label would be. > > if the latter is my best option, is it difficult and fiddly, or something > which should be relatively easy to accomplish. > > gramercy, > > ash. > << File: ATT490530.txt >> > > Internet communications are not secure and therefore Surrey Police does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message. This email and any attachments may be confidential. They may contain privileged information and are intended for the named addressee (s) only. They must not be distributed without our consent. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us immediately and delete the message and any attachments from your computer, do not disclose, distribute, or retain this email or any part of it. Unless expressly stated, opinions in this email are those of the individual sender, and not of Surrey Police. We believe but do not warrant that this e-mail and any attachments are virus free. You must therefore take full responsibility for virus checking. Surrey Police reserves the right to monitor all email communications through their networks.
