Stewart, I thought as much but I kept mis-counting and getting the wrong Icons. This powpoint is extremely helpful, thank you.
Viktor Keenan de la Hoz - Senior GIS Technician
City of Phoenix - Street Transportation Department
Design and Construction Management Division
| Stewart Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
03/03/2005 07:55 AM
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To: [email protected] cc: Subject: Re: [Maptitude] map window limits |
Group:
In regards to: "As to issue #4, the number is the sequence number of the
icon in buttons.bmp, starting with the first one in the first row and
counting to the last one in the last row."
Please see <http://www.directionsmag.com/files/index.php/view/632>. This is
a Microsoft PowerPoint slide containing the GISDK buttons as in
BUTTONS.BMP, numbered for use in the GISDK of Maptitude and TransCAD.
Stewart
At 09:23 AM 3/3/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>Viktor:
>
> >The Constants topic helped clarify three of my issues (#1, #2 and #3).
> >
> >Regarding my other issues, it appears to me that you're side stepping my
> >question. I apologize if I'm giving the impression that I'm asking for
> >someone to spoon feed me the code, because that's not the case. I'm making
> >an honest attempt to figure out how to use Maptitude scripting language, I
> >even managed to write a macro that initially did what I wanted, which is to
> >display the map window limits.
>
>I wanted to give you some pointers, but did not claim to give all the
>answers. As to issue #4, the number is the sequence number of the icon in
>buttons.bmp, starting with the first one in the first row and counting to
>the last one in the last row.
>
>Looking at the Notes for WriteArray(), it says "Array elements that are not
>numeric or strings are ignored." Since the elements in array coords are
>complex variables, you need to change them to numbers or strings. One
>solution is below, which writes each coord complex variable as a decimal
>lon/lat comma-delimited pair:
>
>dBox "mapextents" title: "Map Extents" toolbox
>
> Tool 1, .5 Icons:"bmp\\buttons.bmp|131", "bmp\\buttons.bmp|165",
> "bmp\\buttons.bmp|196" cursor: "Crosshair" do
>
> on escape goto clickskip
> on notfound goto clickskip
>
>//capture map views lon/lat bounds
> coords = GetScopeCorners(GetMapScope())
>
>//write the map view lon/lat bounds to a text file
> ptr = OpenFile("c:\\temp\\testmap.txt", "W")
> for i = 1 to coords.length do
> WriteLine(ptr, r2s(coords[i].lon/1000000) + "," +
>r2s(coords[i].lat/1000000))
> end
> CloseFile(ptr)
>
> clickskip:
> on escape default
> on notfound default
>
> endItem
>
> Close do
> Return()
> endItem
>
>endDbox
>
>
>
>Peter
>
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