MI Mapinfo v5.5 Patch (printing bug)

2000-01-17 Thread Doyle, Peter W
Greetings all, Has anybody come across the following problem after installing the MapInfo v5.5 patch (Patch55026.exe) I am running MI v5.5 under NT4, plotting to a HP650c plotter. I set page setup to print landscape. When opening a layout window it always comes up portrait. This has not been

MI Create Points along a polyline

2000-01-17 Thread Tony Kelava
Hi All, I was wondering if anyone had used the program to create points along a polyline at a nominated interval and then somehow labelled each point sequentially. ie I have a road that covers 300 km and I have created points at 10m intervals. I now need to attribute each point sequeatially fr

MI Intersections

2000-01-17 Thread Anton de Gruchy
Hi All Is the syntax of Street && Street for finding intersections the same in MapX as it is in MapInfo. I have look at the help and the results of the search have the same structure, but the MapX help does not explicitly state the syntax of finding intersections. Does anyone know the declarati

Gratitude to everyone responding - (was: MI - Expressions in "Select")

2000-01-17 Thread David Reid
I know "Thank You" postings probably rate in the "you don't have to, it's assumed you appreciate the help" category. But I just had to post a Thanks anyway and sincerely hope that the folks that responded with assistance, happen to glance over this. Many Many thanks from a Forest Ranger moonligh

MI scale???

2000-01-17 Thread Haavard Bøgh-Olsen
Is there anybody who knows why my changes of the scale won't take place in the map when I print it. I changed it from 1:200 till 1:250 but it will not do that in the paper. thanks haavard __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.c

RE: MI mosaic mapping.

2000-01-17 Thread Paul Grambauer
Gabor, As far as I'm aware, MI does not include the functionality to do this, apart from setting up a layout window and manually shifting the Map window to the desired location. I think your looking for a Batch Printing feature. I've developed one in-house, but it is bundled with other

MI mosaic mapping.

2000-01-17 Thread Gabor Vasarhelyi
Hi all, I have a very large area to map. I wish to map the large area on a series of A3 or A2 submaps (printer limitation). These maps need to be at the same scale with repeated title boxes etc. I envisage a small scale title map that has all the sub plans shown as tiles on it with a key. Is

SUM: MI Question for MB and Win API experts - REDUX

2000-01-17 Thread Bill Thoen
In early Jan 2000, I asked if anyone knew how to use the Windows API functions to get the exact size of text strings before placing them on a mapper. At first no one had a clue. Then I whined and groused some more, said it couldn't be done by mortals, impossible, etc. Well, since nobody believes m

MI VM Square Cell Agg. w/ a .GRC?

2000-01-17 Thread John Chioles
Hello VMers: I am a VM newbie. Is it possible to use the Square Cell Aggregation technique with a .GRC, and then save the square cells as regions in a .TAB? Or, must one start with a point file first? It seems like this should be fairly straight forward operation in VM. TIA John Chioles M

Re: MI MB: Window Maximize Bug

2000-01-17 Thread Christian Tomsu
Hello Warren and all others, now i`m backfrom my one-week skiing-trip in Austria. i tried to avoid that any user can maximize a window. lets take a look at the background: a program sends a dde-message to a program with a fix userdefined maintitle. i can change the maintitle from the mapinfo-ma

Re: MI Street Inventory Signage

2000-01-17 Thread Tim Price
Steven MapPad has been used for the data collection of street sign information by a few local councils. MapInfo maps on a palm pc are used as the base layer for referencing sign location. All data is uploaded to the GIS on returning to the office. Details on MapPad at www.mappad.com Regards Je

Re: MI - Expressions in "Select"

2000-01-17 Thread kueg6001
Dear David, If you want to use wild-card characters in a string expression you have to use the word LIKE instead of =. The wild-card character % (percent) matches zero or more characters. The wild-card character _ (underscore) matches a single character. So your where clause should look like:

RE: MI - Expressions in "Select"

2000-01-17 Thread Jason Adam
David- Try using left$(PLUGS,1)="G" where the 1 is the number of characters on the left side of the string. If you needed all the G1xx plugs for example, you'd enter left$(PLUGS,2)="G1". Same for the right side (right$(column,#chars)="xxx") Jason ¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤» Jason Adam Computer Draftsp

RE: MI MapXtreme Questions

2000-01-17 Thread Jeff Koncz
Sanjay, Here's some code for creating a bind layer using ODBC and returning the layer and dataset as objects. -- 'column 1 must be X-Longitude, column 2 must be Y-Latitude strFields = "Longitude, Latitude, Title, ID" arrFields = Split(strFields,",") strLayerName = "BindLayer" strConnect

MI layouts to 4 colour processing?

2000-01-17 Thread Rowell, Allan H. - GEO/GEO
I am looking for suggestions or an utility to render my map layouts ready for the cmyk four colour separation process. I am creating maps for publishing and I need these maps to be sharp and with high definition. My system is a NT 4 workstation with a network connection to a CLC 1000 printer, and

MI - Expressions in "Select"

2000-01-17 Thread David Reid
Please help me save what's left of my already receding hair line and prevent me from pulling the rest of my hair out. "Select" expressions. I have been through the help files til I'm cross-eyed trying to create a simple select expression to select only the cells of a record that contain a single

No Subject

2000-01-17 Thread Andrew Dobda / HR and Associates, Inc.
Hello list, Is anyone aware of a good source for Portugal street mapping and demographic data? Any contacts or other information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Andrew Dobda -- To unsubscribe from this list, s

RE: MI AD: Elevation Data & Software CD-ROM

2000-01-17 Thread Geodatas
To all list-server participants, I am sorry for the cross-listings that appeared yesterday. On an occasional basis, monthly or every other month for the last year, I have been sending out an email advertisment about some "rather inexpensive" data and software products I have assembled... This

MI Functions for Statistical Distributions

2000-01-17 Thread Stephen R. Riese
Greetings, Am making good progress on my project so far, thanks in no small part to the help I've received from this list. For the next phase of the project, I need to do some statistical analysis, and I wanted to see how much I should expect to do in MI/MB. I'd like to do everything in an MI/MB

MI Plotting V & H Coordinates

2000-01-17 Thread ANDREW MCMILLAN
Dear List, Has anyone heard of a software package or any other method or plotting V & H coordinates. This coordinate system was designed by AT & T in the 1950's in order to calculate straight line distances between switching centres. As an alternative to another software package is there a way t

MI Re:

2000-01-17 Thread Mapinfo User
Happy Monday. I usually run Autoload but accidentally hit Autoload10. Since then, I have been receiving this error: Variable or Field MCD not defined, and once this error occurs my workspace stops loading. Does anyone know how to fix this little headache, so I don't have to almost start from scr

RE: MI AD: Elevation Data & Software CD-ROM

2000-01-17 Thread Bedarf, Derek
I have to disagree. I found this advertisement to be relevant and informative, it is the 1-800-HOTSEX! ads that get to me. If you are that annoyed by ads, maybe you should note that the e-mail subject started with "MI AD" You can set your e-mail to direct all instances of "MI AD" into the trash

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2000-01-17 Thread Gareth_Williams
Is anyone aware of any MI add-ons for drawing cartograms, so the size of regions will vary according to an associated value? Can anyone help? Gareth Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dir. line (0118) 967 2032 DTZ Pieda Consulting Greyfriars Gate 5 Greyfriars Road Reading RG1 1NU --

MI - highlight line upon point selection

2000-01-17 Thread Tom Manson
List members, I have two tables, one containing points, the other lines. I have already created a column in the point table containing the ID of the nearest line. What I would like to do is select a point, and the associated line would become highlighted. Does anyone know if this is possible or i

MI Re:ProViewer

2000-01-17 Thread Kurt Ackermann
Dear Listers/Mapinfo, I was wondering if anyone has any idea when a Japanese version of Proviewer might be coming out or if what seems like a possible language incompatibility to me can be worked around. When trying to open a workspace created in MI Pro 4.5 (Japanese Version), the contents of la

MI Re:ProViewer

2000-01-17 Thread Kurt Ackermann
Dear Listers/Mapinfo, I was wondering if anyone has any idea when a Japanese version of Proviewer might be coming out or if what seems like a possible language incompatibility to me can be worked around. When trying to open a workspace created in MI Pro 4.5 (Japanese Version), the contents of la

MI Query; like and "not like"...

2000-01-17 Thread rune . olsen
Dear list I've got a little, but (for you) a solvable problem, I guess. I have two files that I would like to connect. I write this query, and the result gives me all the matches ( fileA.colA1 = fileB.colB1 And fileA.colA2 = fileB.colB2 ) But I also wants to know what rows that don't match,