Feb 11. If someone has done this in the past and can implement the code as Paul Crisp suggests, I would gladly pay for it. Without this utility, we geologists cannot use MapInfo 'desktop mapping' software for desktop mapping!
Gary Clifton [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------- Gary What you describe can be done using MapX (store the last user click and monitor the curosor position) and in integrated mapping (store the last user click and parse what arrives at SetStatusText in the callback object) - then put it through the code I mentioned in an earlier post. The result can then be put into a text box or whatever on screen, live. You CAN'T do it in MapBasic - MapBasic has the limitation of only having modal dialogs (though I suppose you could put the information in the PRINT window) but more crucially you only get the position of user clicks, not of the cursor as it moves around. Although - very probably, someone on the list has done this in a DLL ten years ago and I'm just exposing my limitless ignorance... Paul Crisp BT Syntegra Innovation Place Delta Bank Road Newcastle NE11 9DJ Tel 0191 461 4522 Fax 0191 460 1987 -----Original Message----- From: Gary Clifton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 January 1998 00:17 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MI-L Obtaiing bearing between points Feb 11 I appreciate all the suggestions concerning my desire to have a readout of the bearing of a line. Bearing.mbx provides a reading after a line has been constructed, and Cogoline requirers that the direction and distance be provided before the line is constructed. What MI DOS provided was a real-time readout in a lower window, in decimal degrees, of the bearing of a line as it was being drawn in the cosmetic window. Thus, a new line could be pivited around its point of origin and the bearing would be instantaneously displayed on the screen. This utility makes it a snap to construct a road, map plot, or any boundary to a high degree of accuracy, and to measure the bearing between two points. Also, new points and line segments can be added as fast as you can read them from a table--unlike the present utility that requires each line segment be type in before construction, and a conversion from from DMS to decimal degrees. This capability should not be too tough to program as inexpensive paint programs such as Paint Shop Pro provide it standard. Gary Clifton --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 10798 ******************************************************************** This email may contain information which is privileged or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, please notify the sender immediately and delete it without reading, copying, storing, forwarding or disclosing its contents to any other person Thank you Check us out at http://www.btsyntegra.com ******************************************************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 10802
