We have used the program MapInfo for this graphic visualization in the past, but hope to take advantage of RB7 graphic handling capabilities to handle this.
Thanks for the help and ideas!
Pat
I had a thread here recently where we do something similar for our customers using their plant layout diagram We place images on one of approx 200 matrix locations to indicate plant problems.====
Larry's suggestion where you dynamically set PROPERTY TOP and PROPERTY
LEFT works for our form which I run in an On Entry EEP which recalculates the problem areas.
Since my last post we have set it up to handle multi floor plants and multiple drawings. The only constraint I have at this time is that the layout area and matrix size is the same for all plant drawings. It can be very labor intensive designing the cell locations, hints, and running the eep when they click on the desired cell. But, it has been a big hit and it opens up a new graphical option to query plant data. Let me know if you need more info. You can also see an example on the RBTI 2004 Spring conference CD.
Dennis
What you are trying to do is easily done using any Geographic Information System (GIS), this is exactly what they are designed to do as the information is tied >to geographically defined objects and not to a box in the screen. Although you can get this to work, the amount of analysis that you can perform is very limited >compared to what you can do with even a basic GIS system. You can still use R:Base as the database to store the information and use a GIS to interface with >maps.
Javier,
