The sales pitch on MapTools SDK worked (you may make a sales person yet - perhaps after the surgery), have progressed to "ready to buy" stage, but can't find where to get it.
All links to EarthNet or AOL seem to lead to dead pages.
Anyone know where I can get it?
r
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 15:48:07 -0700 (MST), B. Thoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Robert Crossley wrote:
Would that code allow you to output any computation to the status bar or message window? I would like to make a ruler tool that could give a
It works by converting map coordinates to pixels and then waits for a left
mouse button click. After that, it goes into a loop tracking the mouse. It
writes several lines to the message window on every mousemove event. I
guess you could calculate whatever you like in that interval. The loop
terminates on the next left mouse button click. Most of the magic is done
with Windows API calls. These include:
GetCursorPos()
GetAsyncKeyState()
GetFocus()
GetClientRect()
GetSystemMetrics()
LoadCursorA()
SetCursor()
ShowCursor()
LoadCursorFromFileA()
GetTickcount()
GetDC()
ReleaseDC()
SetROP2()
MoveToEx()
LineTo()
ClientToScreen()
ScreenToClient()
Then another tool that would allow you to move a line and everytime you
stopped moving it, it would calculate the area that that line would split
the polygon it overlays by.
Don't see why not. You can track mouse movement and button status below
MapInfo and have ABSOLUTE, TOTAL POWER!! At any rate buying Edwards'
MapTools SDK for $50 was a real education for me and well worth the price.
Too bad MapInfo's upgrade pricing ran him off. I think he went and built
his own GIS instead and now doesn't need MapInfo or ESRI. Them that can
throw off the chains, does!
I remember the discussion and challenge on this list, but didn't follow it
up then. Too many fires to put out in the software at that stage, but am
ready to do some cuter stuff now.
Speaking of "cuter things" have you looked at SVG as a way to make maps?
You can get MUCH better graphic effects than either MapInfo or ArcGIS, and
you can post maps online that you can zoom, pan, interact with objects and
layers, and it's free.
I just finished a first try at a MapInfo to SVG translator and posted the
resulting map to http://www.gisnet.com/notebook/NE_Map.htm. To see it, you
need the free SVG plugin from Adobe, but that's a snap to install. I've
only scratched the surface of SVG, but it looks to have some real
potential!
- Bill Thoen
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