Ronan, If you are using one of the later versions of MapInfo/MapBasic, you can either use the Offset() or OffsetXY() functions:
- Offset(object, angle, distance, units) - OffsetXY(object, xoffset, yoffset, units) HTH, Peter Horsbøll Møller GIS Developer, MTM Geographical Information & IT COWI A/S Odensevej 95 DK-5260 Odense S. Denmark Tel +45 6311 4900 Direct +45 6311 4908 Mob +45 5156 1045 Fax +45 6311 4949 E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cowi.dk/gis -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ronan Moriarty Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 5:34 PM To: Mapinfo-l Subject: [MI-L] [Spam] Moving Text Objects Hi Everyone, Sorry to be a pain. I feel really stupid asking this, but I've been banging my head off a brick wall for a few hours now, and nothing works. I've got a number of objects in a table that I want to move. I want to move them, relative to their current position, by (dx, dy). I don't know in advance what objects are going to be in the table, so I iterate through all the rows in the table, and use Do Case based on the current object type. There are points, regions, lines and text. I have no problem moving points, regions or lines, using the Alter Object statement. However, there doesn't seem to be any constants concerning text object positions. I've tried to move the text objects using other constants, as shown below, but none of them worked. I've tried. Alter Object obj Geography OBJ_GEO_TEXTLINEX, ObjectGeography(obj, OBJ_GEO_TEXTLINEX) + dx Alter Object obj Geography OBJ_GEO_TEXTLINEY, ObjectGeography(obj, OBJ_GEO_TEXTLINEY) + dy As well as trying. Alter Object obj Geography OBJ_GEO_POINTX, ObjectGeography(obj, OBJ_GEO_POINTX) + dx Alter Object obj Geography OBJ_GEO_POINTY, ObjectGeography(obj, OBJ_GEO_POINTY) + dy As well as trying. Alter Object obj Geography OBJ_GEO_LINEBEGX, ObjectGeography(obj, OBJ_GEO_LINEBEGX) + dx Alter Object obj Geography OBJ_GEO_LINEBEGY, ObjectGeography(obj, OBJ_GEO_LINEBEGY) + dy Alter Object obj Geography OBJ_GEO_LINEENDX, ObjectGeography(obj, OBJ_GEO_LINEENDX) + dx Alter Object obj Geography OBJ_GEO_LINEENDY, ObjectGeography(obj, OBJ_GEO_LINEENDY) + dy As well as trying. Alter Object obj Geography OBJ_GEO_MINX, ObjectGeography(obj, OBJ_GEO_MINX) + dx Alter Object obj Geography OBJ_GEO_MINY, ObjectGeography(obj, OBJ_GEO_MINY) + dy Alter Object obj Geography OBJ_GEO_MAXX, ObjectGeography(obj, OBJ_GEO_MAXX) + dx Alter Object obj Geography OBJ_GEO_MAXY, ObjectGeography(obj, OBJ_GEO_MAXY) + dy Does anyone have any ideas? I could try to copy all the details of the text object, delete it, and recreate it in a new position, but it sounds like a very tedious way of doing it. Plus, as it was so easy to do for other objects, it seems unusual that I can't use the same statement with different constants for text objects. Thanks in advance, Ronan Moriarty. _______________________________________________ MapInfo-L mailing list [email protected] http://www.directionsmag.com/mailman/listinfo/mapinfo-l _______________________________________________ MapInfo-L mailing list [email protected] http://www.directionsmag.com/mailman/listinfo/mapinfo-l
