> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Claus Dam
> Sent: March 15, 1999 4:32 AM
> Subject: MI: Converting text objects to point objects
>...
> Updating a column with the label text is simple (ObjectInfo (obj,
> 3)), but placing the point object in the corrrect location is not.
> If I use centroids on the text objects, I get the centroid of the
> object's bounding rectangle, and as a lot of the text objects are
> rotated, the centroid is shifted not only horisontally but also
> vertically.
>
> Is there a way to extract the upper left coordinates of the text
> object, as this is where it is "anchored", i.e. where the mouse
> was originally clicked to place it.
objectgeography(obj,1) gives the x mini coord of the MBR ... 2 for y mini, 3
for x maxi, 4 for y maxi. In your case it would be 1 and 4
The MBR of a text object is defined before its rotation, if any.
Jacques Paris
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