On Mon, 3 May 2004, Mats Elfstr�m wrote: > If they had revised the application, why didn't they put it on the CD > instead of on the net?
Because the update was a special personal effort, not an official corporate one is my guess. MapInfo isn't a soulless impersonal corporate entity; there's a lot of creative individual effort that also turns the wheels. I'd rather see an update or example escape quickly and simply through MapInfo-L's channel rather than see it die trying because it's required to go through the slower formal review process, documentation, etc. before it's officially released. > On the whole, maybe MapInfo Corporation should hire somebody to go through > all the utilities and sample code beecause I feel that much of it is > unchanged since version 4, and thus not taking into account the changes in > the user environment that Mr Gates has imposed on us? Not to mention the > numerous new functions and commands available in later MI/MB versions. If we want a more up-to-date set of examples and utilities, maybe *we* should be the ones to build them. The source code for most of the MapInfo ones is available in the /samples/mapbasic directory for those who have MapBasic. Why not "adopt" a little MapBasic project whenever we're in a lull in our day jobs and integrate these into a suite of "MapInfo-L Utilities?" These could be an integrated set of tools (like the famous, but now out-of-date, KGM utilities) that would be useful in their own right, but we should also include examples of coding techniques for new MapBasic programmers. Keep each utility simple but useful, provide source code and be liberal with comments, and use best practices for integrating them into the current MapInfo environment. Think of the fun we could have arguing over what "best practices" means? > I wonder what Kevin Mahoney us up to these days? Last I heard, he went to work for Oracle. - 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: 11618
