alright, i'll give the crispy API solution a shot... and no miss hilton, i can't use alt-prt scrn, in the last day since writing the initial query i've produced over 70,000 map images, my fingers would be worn down to bloody stumps by now. :)
as an aside, my process at the moment because it's automated and doesn't need a great deal of speed, just reliability, is closing down and restarting mapinfo after every couple hundred picture dumps. my closest guess to the number of times MI has been auto-restarted during this single process is in the region of 500 times without a single error. tee hee. if you're interested in seeing an example of what's being generated, go here: http://vmedia.webclients.internode.on.net/455/index.html it's nothing special, and certainly not for 56k users as it's designed for our intranet, but it gives you an idea what i'm doing. i've so far generated about 2,000 of these pages. heh. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 10 February 2004 8:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: MI-L memory leak - save window as... Caroline Keyboard controls are OK for interactive editing but not for an automated process - Save Window As (now its working properly in 7.5) also gives you control over the size, resolution and format directly, plus the ability to put in a comment such as a copyright notice. The API call I posted is a neat solution to a problem that shouldn't exist - actually, for my purposes its better but then I'm not keeping the images as Ash needs to. Paul Crisp Syntegra Innovation Place Delta Bank Road Newcastle NE11 9DJ Tel 0191 461 4522 Fax 0191 460 1987 -----Original Message----- From: Caroline Hilton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 February 2004 09:59 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: MI-L memory leak - save window as... Shoot me if I'm being a little na�ve here, but can't you just use ALT-Prnt scrn to capture the map windows? This is what I use all the time. I paste them into a photo editor (Microsoft Photo Editor's the one I'm using at the moment), then save as whatever image type you need to dump into other documents. Is this a different result to Save Window As...? The resolution's fine. Caroline -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 February 2004 09:44 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: MI-L memory leak - save window as... Ash/Bill I've put up this link a few times now but I may not have seemed directly relevant - >Grab the contents of the MapInfo window using the HWND into a Picture >object - theres example code on the Micrososft >site at >http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q161299. This is an API call that gives you a picture object with the complete map in it - instantaneously. No leak. The situation Ash describes ie memory leak on Save WIndow was the reason I ended up going down this route, although my requirement was just for a snapshot of the screen including highlighting during processing in a VB app. If you hoick the contents of the map window into a picture object in VBA I presume you can then use an Access method or another API call to produce your image file - HTH Paul Crisp Syntegra Innovation Place Delta Bank Road Newcastle NE11 9DJ Tel 0191 461 4522 Fax 0191 460 1987 -----Original Message----- From: B. Thoen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 February 2004 04:30 To: Simmonds, Ashley (OPT) Cc: 'Mapinfo List (E-mail)' Subject: Re: MI-L memory leak - save window as... iOn Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Simmonds, Ashley (OPT) wrote: > just wondering if this is a documented bug or not. i'm doing some > auto-generated web pages which require bucketloads of map images saved > as PNG, so using integrated mapping through MS Access i issue a > command such > as: > > ############## > Save window 666 as "c:\MapImage.PNG" Type "PNG" ############## > Yea, that's a well-known bug. Summoning a demon by using the sign of the beast for a window id isn't going to help you. Salvation is only for those who upgrade religiously. 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