In my defence I did say that someone had probably done it already in a DLL ... :-)
Although I did say that this would expose my limitless ignorance - oh dear Paul Crisp BT Syntegra Innovation Place Delta Bank Road Newcastle NE11 9DJ Tel 0191 461 4522 Fax 0191 460 1987 -----Original Message----- From: Bill Thoen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 March 2004 17:51 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MI-L Obtaining bearing between points [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You CAN'T do it in MapBasic - MapBasic has the limitation of only having Heh heh... You better hope you have plenty of ketchup, because I'm afraid you're going to have to eat those words! It HAS been done -- six or seven years ago by Robert Edwards of The MapTools Company. He extended MapBasic's capability through the use of some Windows APIs and the running output went into the status bar or the mesage window, but I thought it was a pretty clever *tour de force* demonstrating CAN to those who were sure about CAN'T! ;-) It was called XMouse and you could get it and the source code with his MapTools SDK fo $50. - Bill Thoen --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 10806 ******************************************************************** 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 ********************************************************************
