Hi Bill,

I agree and do understand the rationale. However, in this case all that's
being "enhanced" is the UI by adding a button to copy an existing menu
option. Personally, I would have locked down functionality by (amongst other
things) disabling certain coded functions like 110 - Run MapBasic Program.
This way, someone can modify the menus and toolbars as they like within the
scope of the restricted functionality. I remember that this was done a lot
in the early Windows days of Pro. Perhaps it was deemed safer to disable the
whole MapBasic interpreter, rather than entry points to it, therefore the
loading of MapInfoW.mnu is no more.

Regards,
Warren Vick
Europa Technologies Ltd.
http://www.europa-tech.com

-----Original Message-----
From: B. Thoen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 2:17 AM
To: MapInfo-L
Subject: RE: MI-L Adding a "Previous View" button to Pro


On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd. wrote:

> Anyway, PV is as non-extendable as ever, even for a simple enhancement!
>

And that's by design... MapInfo saw how fast L'ers exploited the holes in
their first attempt at a ProViewer so there were inspired to screw the
bolts down and weld them in place.

I think the message is that if you want free software to do whatever you
want, you need to pay for it.

Gee... how old-fashioned! ;-)

- Bill Thoen



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