MI Buffering on an NT workstation

2000-06-06 Thread climber
Query to the list, Has anyone noticed that if you do some operations in MapInfo on a dual CPU NT workstation that both CPU's are active and you can actually run above 80% total CPU resources. I was doing some fairly complex buffering and noticed this. Perhaps some of MapInfo's calls to the OS a

MI "Inside MapInfo Professional" 2ed question

2000-06-06 Thread Matthew Simurda
Any comments on the book "Inside MapInfo Professional", 2nd ed? Is it worth buying, for someone who isn't quite a beginner? Any other book suggestions? Matt Simurda [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you with experience. --

MapInfow.fnt Problem w/ MI5.5

2000-06-06 Thread Yas NaKayama
Title: MapInfow.fnt Problem w/ MI5.5 I am trying to install(copy) customized(added some custom logos) Mapinfow.fnt into Windows directory to overwrite existing MapInfow.fnt file. For some reason, MapInfo does not recognize this new mapInfow.fnt file in MI5.5 Have you guys ever had this prob

Re: MI Interactive Web-mapping

2000-06-06 Thread Dany Bouchard
Natalie, The easiest way to accomplish this is exporting your map (or maps) to an image format supported on the web (such as jpg or gif) and build a client-side image map with links for your location. You could do that with MapBasic to read the URL in your table but the easiest way is to use MapX

Re: MI Shortcoming of MapInfo's SQL

2000-06-06 Thread Erick Posner
Actually, there is a better SQL plug-in for MapInfo. It's called: SpatialWare. With SpatialWare, you can install Informix with the MapInfo and then use SpatialWare. -- Erick Posner Join AllAdvantage! Earn $ while you surf anywhere on the Web http://www.alladvantage.com/go.asp?refid=cbl286

MI Shortcoming of MapInfo's SQL

2000-06-06 Thread Scott Fagg
I'm often frustrated by the poorly implemented SQL in mapinfo, for example, the following straightforward SQL fails... update TableA set ColumnX=2 where ColumnY=5 Isn't this a pretty basic SQL query? Is anyone organizing a petition to convince the MapInfo developers to implement a bit more of

Re: MI Grid file

2000-06-06 Thread Andrew_Dressel
Here is an update to the MapBasic sample code I posted earlier that contains fixes to a couple of items pointed out by careful readers. ' * ' Copyright (c) 2000, MAPINFO CORPORATION ' All rights reserved. ' '

MI Problem converting .shp file

2000-06-06 Thread Swayze . Natalie
Hello all, I'm having problems importing the map on this site into MapInfo: > http://www.gov.ab.ca/env/parks/lrm/arcview/arcview.html > I can open it( post UT translation), but there's now objects created or visible. The data Browser however

MI VM2

2000-06-06 Thread Litea Biukoto
Hello I'm trying to layer several grids in VM2/ Grid view to represent the data layers that exist. The layers include hazards, DTM, bathymetry, orthophotograph, etc. 1. I would like to update the existing grid (DTM) by adding building heights to it, so that they appear as extrusions on the D

MI Interactive Web-mapping

2000-06-06 Thread Swayze . Natalie
A client would like me to create a map displaying company location sites for a region of Canada, incorporating the ability to click on each location and automatically be directed to the companies website. Is this something I will need additional software for, or is this simply a matter of changin

RE: MI MapInfo and Windows 2000

2000-06-06 Thread Lindsay Giles
Hi - Can't give specifics on Win2K+MI 5.x but the tool manager issue sounds suspiciously like the tool manager issue that cropped up with MI 4.5 and NT4 - it worked as an administrator but not as a user. The fix was tooltabl.dll supplied by MapInfo, it replaced the version of the file that cam

MI MapInfo and Windows 2000

2000-06-06 Thread Mansour Shoari
Hello MI List, I have a test platform in our organization running Windows 2000, testing our softwares. I just had a fresh full installation of MapInfo 5.0 and upgraded to 5.0.1 via the patch. MapInfo works fine under the Local Administrator (Administrator for the machine), but not under any other

Re: MI Grid file

2000-06-06 Thread Andrew_Dressel
>I have had a bit of a go at using the API from Delphi, but just can't get >things working. The problem seems to be what the hGrid relates to in >Delphi. Can anybody provide a simple Delphi example that, for example, >opens a grid and reads a value at x,y ? > >There have been a few questions re

MI Info tool window

2000-06-06 Thread Brendan O'Brien
Hi, I have just loaded a copy of Mapinfo 5.5 on a PC. There are a number of layers in the Current map window, however when I click on the information tool it fails to open an Information Window. Any ideas ??? Regards, Brendan O'Brien. WINMAIL.DAT

MI selecting objects

2000-06-06 Thread Dave Lagerstedt
I am trying to select items from a table which contains all the roads in a county.  There are names within a column such as CSAH 1, CSAH 2 and so on, along with others like State Hyw 1, Interstate 90, etc.  I want to select all names which contain CSAH.  How can I do this?  I porbalbly have

RE: MI MB: Turning of zoom/resize/pan etc of map window

2000-06-06 Thread Jacques Paris
This is a multiple facets undertaking, as complex as you want to be sure the user will not modify the view. You will have to act on 4 different "environments : map menu, map shortcut menu, toolpad and MapBasic window.   1 - You must eliminate the menu items that deal with the map view and r

mapinfo-l@csn.net

2000-06-06 Thread dheaney
Much thanks for the tips Karen Behm belived my table to be in UTM. and suggested saving a copy and creating a new projection in decimal degrees. Gilles Perron and Jason Adam suggested changing coordinate units to another projection system other than Degrees. He instructed me to then redo the

RE: MI Drive Time Program

2000-06-06 Thread Kevin Loughlin
Title: RE: MI Drive Time Program < RouteView and RouteView Pro are widely used add-ons to MapInfo Pro in many countries around the world.  There is also a development object called RouteX that can be used with any of the major GIS objects, including MapX.  The whole RouteView range is manu

MI RE: Invoking MapInfo Pro from VB application

2000-06-06 Thread Paul Fildes
Just to say thanks to those who replied in answer to my conundrum. In the end I opted for searching the following Registry key; HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\mapinfow.exe This enabled me to check whether MapInfo is installed on the machine, and if so prov

VS: MI Grid file

2000-06-06 Thread BVT
> Andrew - > > I got the documentation for the grid engine from MapInfo (a file named > grideng30.exe containing 2 word files). It did contain documentation for > the Grid API functions, but missed a description of the various > C-structures (or records in Pascal) used by the API. > > It it po