Re: MI Opening HTML pages within MapInfo
Trey, brilliant - it works now! made my day best wishes from Graham (P.S thanks also to everyone else who responded to this one - opening html pages from mapinfo. Skim below to get the gist) -Original Message-From: Trey Pattillo [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: Graham Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: 25 March 2000 20:30Subject: Re: MI Opening HTML pages within MapInfo hello Graham, Thanks for the *ad* back to the list :-) IT'S RUN PROGRAM filename read on anyway. I need to put this in or explain better in the _readme Definately if spaces exist in the file name /f=c:\my docs\doc1.htm then you *must* put quotes around the file name /f=c:\my docs\long document file.htm Just put the quotes in anyway.. for MB [vb for that matter too] trying to use /f=c:\docs\doc1.htm in order to get the imbeded quotes is a real pain I use a variable say sHtm you can do this from the mapbasic window... DIMsHtml AS String sHtml=c:\htmlview.exe /f=+chr$(34)+c:\webdoc.htm+chr$(34)+ /navshow RUNPROGRAM sHtml UNDIM sHtml don't forget space between and /navshow..needs space before all parameter callers chr$(34) is using the ascii code[you can hold down Alt key anduse numpad to enter number to verify] Trey Pattillo[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.wap3.com - Original Message - From: Graham Smith To: Trey Pattillo Sent: Saturday, 25 March, 2000 09:16 Subject: Re: MI Opening HTML pages within MapInfo Hi Trey, Thanks very much for this. It is EXACTLY what I was looking for which is great. I'm just having a problem actually running it from within my MBX. If I put: C:\HTMLView.exe /f=C:\WebDoc.htm in the WindozeRun box it works fine. But in the MBX, the line: run application C:\HTMLView.exe /f=C:\WebDoc.htm gives me the following error: Error 22 opening file WebDoc.htm I don't suppose you might have any idea why this is? I'm darned if I know. It also doesn't seem to like opening urls in this way. Hope you can advise, and thanks again. Cheers, Graham -Original Message-From: Trey Pattillo [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: Graham Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: 25 March 2000 00:41Subject: Re: MI Opening HTML pages within MapInfo Hello, I have HtmlView available for download from my website. You can call it with a varity of parameters: 1) turn navigator bar on/off [simple back/forward/stop/refresh/url] 2) lock out link jumps [does not work if link is java/script] you just do a run application htmlview.exe /Fwebdoc.htm [other parameters] written in Delphi5, so there is no baggage to install and is very compact, about 150k I think... Hope this helps.. Trey Pattillo[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.wap3.com - Original Message - From: Graham Smith To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 24 March, 2000 07:06 Subject: Re: MI Opening HTML pages within MapInfo I've seen these programs where you can click on a map object and it links to a url. What we really want to do is write html to a file from within an MBX to create a formatted report (that's the easy bit!), then to open that html page in a web browser without having to exit the MapBasic application - in other words, once the file is written, not have to manually go into Explorer to view the report. We wrote a short DLL in Visual Basic and have tried calling this, but with no success (VB skills not too hot!). Graham -Original Message-From: Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: Graham Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: 24 March 2000 12:04Subject: Re: MI Opening HTML pages within MapInfo
Re: MI Opening HTML pages within MapInfo
I've seen these programs where you can click on a map object and it links to a url. What we really want to do is write html to a file from within an MBX to create a formatted report (that's the easy bit!), then to open that html page in a web browser without having to exit the MapBasic application - in other words, once the file is written, not have to manually go into Explorer to view the report. We wrote a short DLL in Visual Basic and have tried calling this, but with no success (VB skills not too hot!). Graham -Original Message-From: Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: Graham Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: 24 March 2000 12:04Subject: Re: MI Opening HTML pages within MapInfo have you looked at linkplus - i think it's available at spatialnews.com, and you might be lucky enough to get the code too to look at. - Original Message - From: Graham Smith To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 1:27 PM Subject: MI Opening HTML pages within MapInfo Dear List, I want to write something in Mapbasic which would allow you to open HTML pages within MapInfo. Can you help at all. Regards, Jackie
RE: MI Opening HTML pages within MapInfo
Hi Graham Well, you are going down the right track (does that translate to the Queen's English?) with the HTML output - it's a great way to make report. VB, however, will not do the job for dll's - it produces ActiveX dll's which are not the same as a standard dll - and MB requires a standard dll. You have a couple of options: 1) Use Delphi (or Visual C++ if you have a someone who codes in it) to write the dll. Delphi is rather similar to VB (the language is Pascal instead of BASIC) but it has the capability to write true dll's. It also includes an HTML viewer control so you could actually just pop up a window or dialog containing the report output - a potentially neater solution than spawning another copy of a web browser. Delphi is relatively inexpensive, fairly easy to learn, and there are examples out there of making it work with Mapinfo - check out theWhite Papers section of http://www.directionsmag.com for some samples and instructions. 2) If you must program in BASIC then check out PowerBasic at http://www.powerbasic.com - it's not a true visual development environment (although it does have a GUI builder that does a lot) but it _does_ produce true dll's. It's also a pretty good development environment and it's output is blindingly fast at a lot of things. Programs written in PowerBasic frequently run rings around similar code written in Visual Basic. I personally prefer Delphi, but that's because I learned Pascal a long time ago and then I was developing MB dll's in Delphi long before I ever heard of PowerBasic. 3) I _think_ you can issue a command through MB to start an external program - and you _might_ be able to do this with either Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator. However, this is not exactly the best solution out there and it is klunky at best). Good luck! James James L Marlow Director, Geographic Information Systems Channel Marketing Corporation 15032 Beltway Drive Dallas, Texas 75001 Telephone 1 (972) 858-9600 extension 331 Facsimile 1 (972) 858-9601 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.cmcus.com -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 7:06 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: MI Opening HTML pages within MapInfo I've seen these programs where you can click on a map object and it links to a url. What we really want to do is write html to a file from within an MBX to create a formatted report (that's the easy bit!), then to open that html page in a web browser without having to exit the MapBasic application - in other words, once the file is written, not have to manually go into Explorer to view the report. We wrote a short DLL in Visual Basic and have tried calling this, but with no success (VB skills not too hot!). Graham -Original Message-From: Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: Graham Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: 24 March 2000 12:04Subject: Re: MI Opening HTML pages within MapInfo have you looked at linkplus - i think it's available at spatialnews.com, and you might be lucky enough to get the code too to look at. - Original Message - From: Graham Smith To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 1:27 PM Subject: MI Opening HTML pages within MapInfo Dear List, I want to write something in Mapbasic which would allow you to open HTML pages within MapInfo. Can you help at all. Regards, Jackie
