Pete Wrote:
>MapBasic is as old as the hills, as deep as the oceans and as difficult to
>get to the bottom of... perhaps. Jolly useful though.
>Pete
> ----------
Isn't it injustice?...
For project development and for macro-works you can't ever compare MI with
other strict GIS packages,
And you don't have to learn C++ for writing superior programs and writing
macros,
Any project you done with MI/MB, it is very easy to create an application,
so operator makes all the works with a mouse click.
However, the difficulty arises from the MI Stuff that many of easyness
functions is not written in MI - and not difficult to code....
For example, ther aren't any sort by column button, or menu in the user
interface,
You can't change default "mile" settings, (-especially for international
settings as far as i know)
There are lots of functions about objects and geography and tables etc,,
that are not listed on FUNCTIONS dialogs
but you can use in mapbasic window IF YOU DISCOVERED...
MI trust us that we can do it with ourselves... :)
Ahmet DABANLI
GIS SPECIALIST
ANKARA/ TURKIYE
>
>I recently joined this user's list for MapInfo, thinking it would be
>useful to my uses of MapInfo --creating historical maps to display social,
>demographic and political characteristics of cities and regions.
>
>I have noticed the tremendous amount of traffic on the list, with 99.9% of
>it devoted to MapBasic questions and techniques. I can't figure out what
>the need is for such controls. Are they for people with dynamic maps,
>such as weather maps, that change with incoming real-time data? Is there
>any advantage of MapBasic controls for socio-demographic-political maps?
>And why the tremendous traffic -- is MapBasic *that* difficult, or is
>it so new that people are in a steep learning curve?
>
>
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