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Hi All, I’m writing an mbx for MapInfo 6.5 to save a
large number of maps as image files. I want to add scalebars to each map, so I
intend to run ScaleBar.mbx (Version 3.5) from my own mbx. Once the scale bar is
added to the Mapper window, I intend to move the scale bar objects for each
image being saved, so that they appear on each map image created (the scale of
all the images are going to be the same!). I feel that automating the addition
of the scalebar would be the ideal approach, as I need to standardise the maps
as much as possible, so the less user-interaction the better. What I would like to know is if there is any way of
passing “command line parameters” to Scalebar.mbx from my mbx, so
that the dialog doesn’t have to be displayed and the scale bar properties
can be set and the scale bar can be added automatically. Alternatively, maybe I
could use DDE to achieve a similar result? At a glance, it would appear that I
could edit the Scalebar.prf file to change the scale bar settings, but without
documentation, it could involve a large amount of trial and error! Also, if either of these approaches are possible, I
need to find documentation on the command line parameters / DDE requests to
use! Again, the program is ScaleBar.mbx and it’s version 3.5. Thanks in advance, Ronan Moriarty. |
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