Peter
You're correct - on the 2-page blurb ("MapInfo Professional v7.8 Comparison
Chart") it says -
MapInfo Pro 7.8 adds :
(various bits & pieces, then)
MapXtreme 2004: Save MapInfo Professional Workspace as MapXtreme 2004 MWS
ie, save only - not read.
Ian Thomas
GeoSciSoft - Perth, Australia
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Horsb�ll M�ller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, 20 September 2004 4:56 PM
> To: SCISOFT
> Subject: RE: MI-L Workspace - definition of
>
> Hi Ian,
>
> I guess this was a misspell ? It can't read but write the new XML based
> MapInfo Workspace
>
> >> Also, v7.8 can read the new workspace file format for MapXtreme 2004.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: RE: MI-L Workspace - definition of
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>
> Dave
>
> A workspace really contains MapBasic language commands. Some of these
> might be useful for Manifold - eg, views, queries, the layout composition,
> labels, and colours of this and that (styles). There's not a standard or
> regular
> *format* for things that would get saved there (but there is a sort of
> regular list - see below). Have a look at Chapters 2, 6 and 9 of the
> MapBasic User Guide, and more particularly all of this is discussed in
> Chapter 5 of the MapInfo Professional User Guide. There is a list of the
> sorts of things that get saved in the (various) WOR files - see Ch5 (in
> the MI 6.5 User Guide); but things have changed from version to version.
> Example: Printer setup was added in more recent versions (but it's better
> to ignore that, for your purposes). Also, v7.8 can read the new workspace
> file format for MapXtreme 2004.
>
> There are some caveats - eg, from MUI v6.5 UG, Ch5:
> "How Renaming Tables Affects Workspaces
> When you change the name of a MapInfo table that is listed in a workspace,
> you invalidate that workspace. Table names are stored in the workspace
> file. If you change the name of the table, the workspace does not know how
> to find it."
>
> Awkward, isn't it?
>
> In the MI v6.5 UG Appendix J "MapInfo Data Interchange Format" is a good
> place to start. Then, open your PDF version of the User Guide and search
> on Workspace from the beginning, to quickly get an in-context of the
> complexities of when / what is saved, whether it's optional, how you can
> lose info, how the .WOR can become invalid.
>
> Ian Thomas
> GeoSciSoft - Perth, Australia
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Baker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Monday, 20 September 2004 3:56 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: MI-L Workspace - definition of
> >
> > Does anyone know if there is any such thing as the definition of what
> > a workspace contains?
> >
> > In particular I am interested in all the components of a workspace
> > that would be created by a Save Workspace command. I'm aware that one
> > can actually manually edit a
> > workspace & add in any(?) MapBasic command, but this is rarely done I
> > would expect.
> >
> > I'm trying to work simultaneously in MapInfo & Manifold & having a
> > definition of the makeup of a workspace would help me to write a
> > script that could read & create
> > MapInfo workspaces.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Dave
> >
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