Re: MI-L Need Code to find nearest Point

2001-01-06 Thread Bill Thoen
= RowId Set NearestDistance = Distance After this loop finishes, the Row Id of the nearest point is NearestId, and you can use Fetch on the selection of other points to retrieve it. - Bill Thoen GISnet, 1401 Walnut St., Suite C

Re: MI-L MIF/MID Specification

2000-11-27 Thread Bill Thoen
ven to me by MapInfo to post in a public place. - Bill Thoen GISnet, 1401 Walnut St., Suite C, Boulder, CO 80302 tel: 303-786-9961, fax: 303-443-4856 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://

Re: MI-L MB Text file editing

2000-11-12 Thread Bill Thoen
this with MapBasic, you would find the job to be something like building the Three Gorges Dam with a teaspoon. - Bill Thoen GISnet, 1401 Walnut St., Suite C, Boulder, CO 80302 tel: 303-786-9961, fax: 303-443-4856 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: MI-L Newbie Question

2000-10-20 Thread Bill Thoen
t be based on a separate layer, but you can use multiple copies of that layer. -- - Bill Thoen GISnet, 1401 Walnut St., Suite C, Boulder, CO 80302 tel: 303-786-9961, fax: 303-443-4856 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: MI Objet texte

2000-09-27 Thread Bill Thoen
Olivier Latouille wrote: Quelle requête faut-il exécuter, soit dans MapInfo soit dans un programme MapBasic, pour récupérer le TEXTE d'un OBJET TEXTE ? C'est: sText = ObjectInfo(obj, OBJ_INFO_TEXTSTRING) ou: sText = ObjectInfo(obj, 3) Bon chance! -- - Bill Thoen

Re: MI duplicating records

2000-09-26 Thread Bill Thoen
that comes with MapInfo to jiggle them around so you can see them. - Bill Thoen GISnet, 1401 Walnut St., Suite C, Boulder, CO 80302 tel: 303-786-9961, fax: 303-443-4856 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ctmap.

MI MapInfo-L moving news

2000-09-25 Thread Bill Thoen
"geologist" on any Star Trek I episode. But should that unlikely event happen, just follow the above instructions, or contact me, and all will be cool once again. -- - Bill Thoen GISnet, 1401 Walnut St., Suite C, Boulder, CO 80

MI Re: About DiaBuilder

2000-09-25 Thread Bill Thoen
uilder2000/diabuilder2000.htm - Bill Thoen GISnet, 1401 Walnut St., Suite C, Boulder, CO 80302 tel: 303-786-9961, fax: 303-443-4856 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ctmap.

MI How to unsubscribe

2000-09-25 Thread Bill Thoen
ive or a no response, that address gets removed. Other problems, please contact me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- - Bill Thoen GISnet, 1401 Walnut St., Suite C, Boulder, CO 80302 tel: 303-786-9961, fax: 303-443-4856 mai

Advertising to fund MapInfo-L (was MI ANNOUNCEMENT: MapInfo-L is moving! -No Advertising!!)

2000-09-22 Thread Bill Thoen
and that advertising would be a covenant way to afford it. As Henry D. Thoreau once said, "All great enterprises should be self-supporting." How about some ideas instead of complaints? -- - Bill Thoen GISnet, 1401 Walnut St

MI ANNOUNCEMENT: MapInfo-L is moving!

2000-09-21 Thread Bill Thoen
scussion? Objections? - Bill Thoen GISnet, 1401 Walnut St., Suite C, Boulder, CO 80302 tel: 303-786-9961, fax: 303-443-4856 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://

MI FYI MapBasic Developers: A Tool for Building MB Dialog Code

2000-09-20 Thread Bill Thoen
from http://www.wap3.com/diabuilder2000.htm, but if you have to write more than 2 or 3 real MB dialogs a year, I think you will find that the commercial version pays for itself very quickly. - Bill Thoen GISnet, 1401 Walnut St., Suite C

MI Looking DEM file - 1:250K Ssn Bernadino

2000-09-15 Thread Bill Thoen
I am unable to download the 1:250K DEM from the USGS site at ftp://edcftp.cr.usgs.gov/pub/data/DEM/250/S. There's seems to be rust in the pipe or something. Can anyone tell me where else I can get it from today? -- - Bill Thoen

MI Got it! Re: Looking DEM file - 1:250K Ssn Bernadino

2000-09-15 Thread Bill Thoen
Thanks everyone; I have this now... apparently some people have better access from other locations. Bill Thoen wrote: I am unable to download the 1:250K DEM from the USGS site at ftp://edcftp.cr.usgs.gov/pub/data/DEM/250/S. There's seems to be rust in the pipe or something. Can anyone tell

Re: who mapinfo-l (was MI Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:44:00 +1000)

2000-09-13 Thread Bill Thoen
to clam up about this information. The chill shadow of the Spammer now darkens our land, and our tribe has no defense other than to keep a low profile. - Bill Thoen GISnet, 1401 Walnut St., Suite C, Boulder, CO 80302 tel: 303-786-9961

SUMMARY: MI What happened to Groupe Korem?

2000-09-08 Thread Bill Thoen
: http://www.map-logix.com/. Also their site for internet mapping (Push'n See) is at http://www.pushnsee.com/index.html. - Bill Thoen GISnet, 1401 Walnut St., Suite C, Boulder, CO 80302 tel: 303-786-9961, fax: 303-443-4856 mailto:[EMAIL

MI What happened to Groupe Korem?

2000-09-07 Thread Bill Thoen
Does anyone know what's happened to Le Groupe Korem (makers of MapLogix)? Their web site at http://www.korem.com seems to be out cold. - Bill Thoen GISnet, 1401 Walnut St., Suite C, Boulder, CO 80302 tel: 303-786-9961, fax: 303-443

Re: MI Opening multiple files

2000-09-06 Thread Bill Thoen
ectionsmag.com/tools/default.asp?a=fileid=4 - Bill Thoen GISnet, 1401 Walnut St., Suite C, Boulder, CO 80302 tel: 303-786-9961, fax: 303-443-4856 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://

Re: MI MapInfo Pro 6.0 Demo

2000-09-06 Thread Bill Thoen
site. Did I dream that there was a demo version? You're dreaming. There is only a "slide show" of MI 6.0, no free download; never has been. At least not here in North America. Maybe you're thinking of MapX? That you can download and try out. -

MI How to unsubscribe from MapInfo-L

2000-09-01 Thread Bill Thoen
even close, then I will send a note to the address being unsubscribed, and if there's an affirmative or a no response, that address gets removed. Other problems, please contact me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Bill Thoen -

Phriday Philosophy (was: MI and Manifold)

2000-08-25 Thread Bill Thoen
bers do. I know from experience that it's a lot of work when you try to deliver that sort of service. But would something like this be worth anything to readers? - Bill Thoen GISnet, 1401 Walnut St., Suite C, Boulder, CO 80302 tel: 303-78

Re: MI New Company

2000-08-25 Thread Bill Thoen
e infiltration and exploitation of geography..." "...complete infiltration and exploitation of geography..." "...complete infiltration and exploitation of geography..." Sort of like "total war" eh? I guess the Wooden Ships really were just a hippie dream. - Bill Thoen -

MI Crime Mapping GIS featured in New CBS Show this fall

2000-08-23 Thread Bill Thoen
I ran across this on MAPS-L. Which GIS do you suppose they're using? Jennifer Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --- From: "UCGIS" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "UCGIS Community" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 2:27 PM Subject: GIS has made it to TV "The District," is a new CBS

Re: MI License plates addresses

2000-08-23 Thread Bill Thoen
that, you have to decide what your principles are. - Bill Thoen GISnet, 1401 Walnut St., Suite C, Boulder, CO 80302 tel: 303-786-9961, fax: 303-443-4856 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ctmap.

MI MapInfo's Stock Splits -- 3 for 2

2000-08-23 Thread Bill Thoen
MAPINFO ANNOUNCES THREE-FOR-TWO STOCK SPLIT AND COMMON STOCK REPURCHASE PROGRAM http://dynamo.mapinfo.com/presscenter/web/view.cfm?releaseid=510 Does this surprise anyone? -- - Bill Thoen GISnet, 1401 Walnut St., Suite C, Boulder

Re: MI Japanese Text Display Support

2000-08-22 Thread Bill Thoen
avoid a lot of viruses that way too. Or maybe you could just switch to non-HTML formatted mail. -- - Bill Thoen GISnet, 1401 Walnut St., Suite C, Boulder, CO 80302 tel: 303-786-9961, fax: 303-443-4856 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], http

Re: MI Global Variable

2000-08-21 Thread Bill Thoen
As Integer. In the main sub this variable gets the integer value of a special map-window. if i show this id from another sub in another project this variable does not have the same content. has anybody a good idea for a solution or what i am doing wrong? -

Re: Fw: MI Is MapInfo going to die?

2000-08-19 Thread Bill Thoen
e big deal. - Bill Thoen GISnet, 1401 Walnut St., Suite C, Boulder, CO 80302 tel: 303-786-9961, fax: 303-443-4856 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ctmap.com/gisnet Alim Kuc

More URLs on Microsoft .NET (was MI Is MapInfo going to die?)

2000-08-19 Thread Bill Thoen
w.nsf/news/8A190B09D61C06D6CA25691100261C50!OpenDocument For more perspective besides Microsoft, see http://www.google.com and search for "Microsoft .NET" (note the space before the dot.) - Bill Thoen GISnet, 1401 Walnut St., Suite C

Re: MI 6.0 A plea to lock down the tool bars

2000-08-18 Thread Bill Thoen
Also feel free to contact your vendor and raise hell any time. That's what vendors are for! ;-) - Bill Thoen GISnet, 1401 Walnut St., Suite C, Boulder, CO 80302 tel: 303-786-9961, fax: 303-443-4856 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.c

Re: Fw: MI Is MapInfo going to die?

2000-08-17 Thread Bill Thoen
think they are following sound business practice and simply going where the money is--big corporations. Innovation is back in the hands of third-party types who use MapBasic and MapX. Anyway, that's just my current uninformed opinion. Ask me next week when I'm even less informed and I'll tell you

MI The Diabolical MapInfo Exam

2000-08-16 Thread Bill Thoen
deas. MapInfo's training quiz (to see how much you know) is at: http://testdrive.mapinfo.com/inetbu/survey.nsf/TrainingSurvey?openform There's also some good sources for questions in the MapInfo wish list at: http://www.directionsmag.com

MI More on Diabolics

2000-08-16 Thread Bill Thoen
out dialog. 2. Double click on the rainbow icon on the main window title bar while browsing the World table. *3. The users haven't found the easter egg yet. The asterisk (*) means that 3 is the right answer. - Bill Thoen GISnet, 1

Re: MI MapInfo Certification / Exam

2000-08-15 Thread Bill Thoen
t for some questions as there is more than one right answer (but the right answer might the one that names the other choices.) I bet if we all tried we could make up a really diabolical test that even MapInfo tech support couldn't pass! ;-) - Bill Thoen ---

Re: MI Information Request: Corporate MapInfo Users List.

2000-08-14 Thread Bill Thoen
some useful information about MapInfo's sales that might help you determine its world-wide coverage. - Bill Thoen GISnet, 1401 Walnut St., Suite C, Boulder, CO 80302 tel: 303-786-9961, fax: 303-443-4856 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], http

MI Yet another repetition of KAKWORM

2000-08-11 Thread Bill Thoen
rom Norton is only $5 a year. That's cheap. Read all about this virus here: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/wscript.kakworm.html - Bill Thoen GISnet, 1401 Walnut St., Suite C, Boulder, CO 80302 tel: 303-786-9961, fax: 303-443-4

Re: MI Online Survey with prizes worth over US$ 100,000

2000-08-01 Thread Bill Thoen
k mailings to all the GIS lists they could find...all at once (another unwise thing to do.) Considering that Asia will be where the action is online in the 21st century, there's an incredible opportunity to build a community foundation here. Spamming isn't the way to do it. -

Re: MI Directions Magazine Tools list

2000-07-25 Thread Bill Thoen
has the download link) at http://www.directionsmag.com/tools/default.asp?a=fileid=265. - Bill Thoen GISnet, 1401 Walnut St., Suite C, Boulder, CO 80302 tel: 303-786-9961, fax: 303-443-4856 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: MI Map Basic 6 / mapinfo 5.0

2000-07-24 Thread Bill Thoen
the dash. The attachment is plain text and shows a debug session. - Bill Thoen GISnet, 1401 Walnut St., Suite C, Boulder, CO 80302 tel: 303-786-9961, fax: 303-443-4856 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ctmap.com/gisnet -

Re: MI unsubscribe (How to do it!)

2000-07-21 Thread Bill Thoen
ffirmative or a no response, that address gets removed. Other problems, please contact me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Bill Thoen Dan Munson wrote: unsubscribe Dan Munson VP Sales Marketing CDS Business Mapping 800-746-7797 Mapping for the Next Millennium(TM) [EMAIL

MI How to get the KAKWORM virus off your machines

2000-07-21 Thread Bill Thoen
hutdown. First reported in January 2000. Recovery: To disinfect infected objects delete all macros belonging to the virus." -- - Bill Thoen GISnet, 1401 Walnut St., Suite C, Boulder, CO 80302 tel: 303-786-9961, fax: 303-44

Re: MI. Dialogs and DDE

2000-07-19 Thread Bill Thoen
hat's not acceptable, then maybe your intercept code should also tell your VB app to do something else with the messages until your MB app is free again. - Bill Thoen GISnet, 1401 Walnut St., Suite C, Boulder, CO 80302 tel: 303-786-996

Re: MI WARNING: Virus Alert for MapInfo-L - IT'S REAL!

2000-07-17 Thread Bill Thoen
attachments (including vcards!). I really don't think we need HTML text in a mailing list. - Bill Thoen GISnet, 1401 Walnut St., Suite C, Boulder, CO 80302 tel: 303-786-9961, fax: 303-443-4856 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ctmap.com

Re: MI Switch line direction

2000-07-13 Thread Bill Thoen
Try revdir.zip by Arnold McRae http://www.directionsmag.com/tools/default.asp?a=fileid=184 - Bill Thoen "feinholz, lois" wrote: ... I wanted to know if there is a way to select one or more of the polylines and reverse the line direction on them (i.e. to get the arrow in

Re: MI - MapBasic lists

2000-07-13 Thread Bill Thoen
ule-scoped variable, and the use you make of it is clever, obvious and totally appropriate. I wouldn't put down the use of globals here. - Bill Thoen GISnet, 1401 Walnut St., Suite C, Boulder, CO 80302 tel: 303-786-9961, fax: 303-443-4856 mai

Re: MI Numeric Values in String

2000-07-11 Thread Bill Thoen
then CleanString = "" exit function end if for i = 1 to j c = mid$(sText, i, 1) if instr(1, "0123456789", c) = 0 then 'character is not a number sResult = sResult + c end if next CleanString = sResult end fu

Re: MI USGS digital quad maps

2000-07-07 Thread Bill Thoen
to try it. Sounds like a corrupt file to me. I'm very frustrated. Why can't the government just do things like everybody else and use Winzip? Better to ask "Why can't the government ALWAYS use public-domain formats instead of undocumented ESRI files?" -

Re: MI MB: Latest Agony

2000-07-06 Thread Bill Thoen
where rowid = nRow '--- What I didn't understand when I was first struggling with this myself is that you have to "update" the table or nothin shows. Also notice the "where rowid = nRow" bit. Leave this off and ALL you records get changed to this o

Re: MI - drawing a line a specific length

2000-07-06 Thread Bill Thoen
Tom Manson wrote: I'm sure there's an easy answer to this one. How can I draw a line a specified length/distance, say 1.75km? Draw any line, double click on it, and set the length parameter in the dialog box to exactly what you want. - Bill Thoen

MI How to Unsusbcribe from MapInfo-L

2000-07-05 Thread Bill Thoen
se contact me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Bill Thoen Ken Goraya wrote: unsubscribe mapinfo-l -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L"

Re: MI Lack of mail!!

2000-07-05 Thread Bill Thoen
are still out there) and we will work it out. - Bill Thoen -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MI Lack of mail!!

2000-07-05 Thread Bill Thoen
shut down the "Mail Archive" mirror. It's just spam, spam, spam... - Bill Thoen -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MI Mid-point line between multiple points

2000-07-05 Thread Bill Thoen
to a station. Vertical Mapper (http://www.northwoodtec.com) makes these easily. Also check out The Map Tools Company's (http://members.aol.com/maptools/) TriTools (a good for the price.) - Bill Thoen GISnet, 1401 Walnut St., Suite C, Boulder, CO 80302 tel: 303-786-9961, fax: 303-443-4856 mailto:[EMAIL

Re: MI Friday History

2000-06-23 Thread Bill Thoen
ps falling on their swords... I don't buy it. It's still a free country, and praise be we can all say what we like in public, but I couldn't let Thurrott's piece pass as "history." It's just a spin on history. - Bill Thoen - This is a an article from Windows 2000 Magazine by Paul Thurro

Re: MI Frames ID

2000-06-20 Thread Bill Thoen
with ObjectInfo(), etc. Unfortunately, there is no FrameInfo() function, and that's a pity, because that means you can't examine attributes specifically associated with frames. Oh yeah, and when working with layouts, don't forget to "set coordsys layout"! - Bill Thoen Ian Garner wrote:

Re: Meaning of MI Parameters

2000-06-20 Thread Bill Thoen
ccurate" MapInfo is. I'm not convinced that "computer jockeys" are entirely ignorant knowlessmen. Regards, - Bill Thoen P.S. Good flame, full marks for rebarbative epithets! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The parameters you sent are an example of a MI projection file for

MI unsubscribing CONKLIN

2000-06-18 Thread Bill Thoen
I just did. BTW, that's not SPAM. It's just a mistake. Everybody's allowed one. Sure is annoying though, eh? - Bill Thoen - Original Message - From: Erick Posner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill, Please unsubscribe the guy CCONKLIN... he's spamming us with his "vacation"

MI Re: unsubscribing CONKLIN

2000-06-18 Thread Bill Thoen
.. "Haggis", perhaps? Or "Pie Floaters"? - Bill Thoen - Original Message - From: Erick Posner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Actually, you're right, it's not a spam... just a mistake, so what do we call those mistakes? Spam means that someone is sending us junk emails intentio

Re: MI my Tool Manager went away and I miss him

2000-06-14 Thread Bill Thoen
Sounds like your Tool Manager's gone bad and run off to join the Paper Clip Buddy's gang. They probably roped the Spatial Analyist into it too. Buncha thugs, if you ask me. But try copying this into the Mapbasic window: Create Menu "Tools" ID 4 As "Tool Manager..." HelpMsg "The Tool-buddy"

MI MapBasic project estimation and planning

2000-05-30 Thread Bill Thoen
it (even though most people tell me that's basically what they do too.) TIA, - Bill Thoen -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or cont

Re: MI 5.0?

2000-05-26 Thread Bill Thoen
Robert Karr wrote: Greetings All: When was MapInfo Pro 5.0 released?? ...thanks ...Bob Sept 1998, or very close to then. At least that's when people started talking about it on the L. - Bill Thoen -- To unsubscribe from

Re: MI MapBasic syntax

2000-05-25 Thread Bill Thoen
so people will know the message is about MapBasic, and I expect you'll get a pretty good response if you don't ask too many questions in a single message. - Bill Thoen "SenGupta,Georges" wrote: Dear All, Is there a free available syntax list for MapBasic Georges Sen-Gupt

Re: MI miles and kilometres

2000-05-23 Thread Bill Thoen
were still freshly visible. - Bill Thoen "Lavoie, Claude" wrote: What about this unit of measure the MIT students used to measure a bridge over the Charles River in Boston, Mass. (unit corresponding to the height

Smoots and Boston geography (was: MI miles and kilometres)

2000-05-23 Thread Bill Thoen
ts. Ah yes... the "Smoot!" One night a frat required its new pledge class to measure the MIT bridge using Mr Smoot's body. I forget how many Smoots the bridge is, but every year the new pledge class has to repaint the smootmarks. Last time I walked over the Charles to Cambridge

My address (was MI - list problem ?)

2000-05-19 Thread Bill Thoen
the govt. has "views" about that sort of thing. (but I won't bother them about it--they've got plenty to do now anyway.) If you ever want to reach me via post, you can always check the "contacts" page on my web at http://www.ctmap.com/gisnet/, and also here: GISnet c/o Bill Thoen 14

Re: FW: MI Antigen found =*.* file

2000-05-11 Thread Bill Thoen
and embedded binary data (like images) and even HTML formatting whether the world would be a better place or not? - Bill Thoen -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPI

Re: MI Just wondering

2000-05-11 Thread Bill Thoen
. In effect, fear of the love bug has been almost as effective at seizing up the 'net as an actual infection would have been. - Bill Thoen Brian Upton wrote: It is a problem on the mapinfo-l end of the line. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf

Re: MI Time function

2000-05-05 Thread Bill Thoen
different ways to calculate times in mapbasic. - Bill Thoen Gareth Hardman wrote: Guys and gals, Does anyone have a function that can easily work out the time difference say between 18:34 and 21:23. Ive written the code that will do this but frankly my inefficient program

Re: Anyone used MI 6.0 yet?

2000-05-05 Thread Bill Thoen
software and switch to Linux and GRASS. At least that's what will happen if history is any guide to the present. - Bill Thoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just curious, does anyone have any experiences with MI 6.0 yet along with any comments on new features or views on if many users will flock

Re: MI VM and MapInfo 6.0

2000-05-02 Thread Bill Thoen
IMHO (although I guess there's no such thing as a "humble opinion") Vertical Mapper is still light-years ahead of MapInfo in the area of 3D operations. matias wrote: With the new version of MapInfo in relation to 3D . What will happen with Verticla Mapper ??? thank matias chile

Re: MI Well . . . .has anybody tried their GPS this morning?

2000-05-02 Thread Bill Thoen
Jeff Lebowski wrote: I did and it kept giving me coordinates for someplace called Devil's Mountain in Wyoming. Go figure. And so where did you think you were this morning? Perhaps they screwed up and activated the SDI transporter beam instead of turn off SA, and you might just have become

Re: MI Allowing user to specify a directory

2000-04-27 Thread Bill Thoen
is a directory. You'll need one of those whopping big WinAPI books to understand all the details (I'm using the "Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Windows API" by Dan Appleman), but if you want to ext

Re: MI - Date function

2000-04-20 Thread Bill Thoen
Have you tried selecting setting the where clause to "Table2.date = (Table1.date - 10) AND Table2.date = (Table1.date + 10)" Tom Manson wrote: Okay people, how much do you know about Date functions in MI? Is it possible to select a row from Table1 where the date is within 10 days (for

Re: MI Without MB :Increasing Font Size in the Info Tool output box?

2000-04-18 Thread Bill Thoen
bold, etc.), the last 0 is the color. - Bill Thoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not have MapBasic so I guess there is not a way then without it? It looks like I need to get MapBasic. James Is there a way to increase the font size of the output variable of the Info Tool output box? I

Re: MI I was going to invest.... but ??

2000-04-18 Thread Bill Thoen
Very odd in light of today's release of MapInfo's second quarter financial results. Here's the stats: 30% Revenue Growth; Operating Income Increases 96%; Net Income up 92%. There doesn't seem to be much wrong with that picture. But who knows why multi-millionaires do what they do? Serge

Re: MI Find Point using distance on a line

2000-04-14 Thread Bill Thoen
n = y2 end if loop while abs (d1-d) Close_Enough Good luck, - Bill Thoen -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MI NAD27 to NAD83

2000-04-14 Thread Bill Thoen
mapper with the layers reversed and the other point is "correct". (This is because the mapper gets its coordsys from the first map layer displayed in a mapper.) - Bill Thoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, I have a map in NAD27. When I "Save Copy As..." the map to ano

MI Re: Customising the MapInfo Professional on the top left hand of the MI screen

2000-04-05 Thread Bill Thoen
Tony Kelava wrote: Can anyone tell me if the following is possible: Can I change the "MapInfo Professional" text on the top left hand part of the MI screen to read something like "Tonys MapInfo GIS"? Here's some MapBasic code that will do it. 'TonyWin.mb 'Demonstrates how to change the

MI SUM: Converting DEM data between vertical datums

2000-03-31 Thread Bill Thoen
sts, contact me directly." Thanks for the help, folks; I think I have a handle on it now! - Bill Thoen -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the m

Re: MI HOW TO CONVERT DEGREE TO METER

2000-03-30 Thread Bill Thoen
be in the current coordinate system. - Bill Thoen Jiang yuwu wrote: If coordinate system is a Earth project such as "UTM Zone 18, Northern Hemisphere (WGS 84)" and I know the location of a point in "degree" unit, how can I get the x,y in "m" unit? the other wa

MI How to avoid importing indentical objects?

2000-03-30 Thread Bill Thoen
can't gaurantee that a unique key can be maintained.) TIA, - Bill Thoen -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MI spams

2000-03-27 Thread Bill Thoen
post more on that as it becomes a real option... - Bill Thoen P.S. You seldom get answers to more than one question per message, but keeping a map window open when you remove the last layer is not possible directly. The best solution I've seen is to open an empty dummy layer and never remove that one

Re: MI MapInfo List - Data Translators.

2000-03-23 Thread Bill Thoen
://www.DirectionsMag.com/Tools, or you can grab it directly from: http://www.directionsmag.com/tools/Default.asp?a=fileid=252. - Bill Thoen -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubsc

Re: MI Re: Hottest product on the net...banned after 3/25/00 sasfd

2000-03-21 Thread Bill Thoen
MIB would be on your doorstep within 24 hours? Just put a fresh spring under your delete key and keep using it. That really is the path of least resistance. - Bill Thoen -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTE

MI Do we want to create a MapInfo Newsgroup?

2000-03-17 Thread Bill Thoen
ut it's an active one! If you have an opinion or some interest in getting involved, speak up! For those of you on mirror sites, remember that the list address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]; you don't have to be a subscriber to pos

Re: MI Do we want to create a MapInfo Newsgroup?

2000-03-17 Thread Bill Thoen
ty quickly. There are pros and cons to newsgroups just as there are for mailing lists, but I think I will defer to those who thought MapInfo-L should go to a newsgroup to describe why they think newsgroups are better. - Bill Thoen -- To u

Re: MI mif2tab.exe ?

2000-03-16 Thread Bill Thoen
in the last few months, so I guess the genie is just about out of the bottle anyway. Just out of curiousity, if you could buy it, what would people be willing to pay for a DLL or ActiveX tool that would provide the ability to create and direct read/write access to MapInfo TAB files? - Bill

Re: MI Elias teaches us a lesson

2000-03-15 Thread Bill Thoen
ddy" fawning obsequiously at us every time we look like we're flailing away at worthless WIMP interfaces that are so cleverly written as to always manage to dynamically hide the very operation we need. - Bill Thoen Francois Molle wrote: After the inconvenience experienced by our group, now di

Re: MI: Can somebody please remove Elias!

2000-03-13 Thread Bill Thoen
-at [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR you could just girn and bear it. I've complained (again) so s/he is aware of the problem and its magnitude. - Bill Thoen John Fannon wrote: Could somebody please remove this person from the list as I am receiving unsubscribe messages every few minutes. than

Re: MI Elias, get some help???

2000-03-09 Thread Bill Thoen
polite, and give them a chance to take action. Maybe if they get enough noise, it'll wake them up over there. - Bill Thoen "Brown, Christopher (HI Perth)" wrote: The unsubscribe messages I keep getting from this person, are really starting to P**S me of

Re: MI MapX - can mapx import mif/MID files

2000-03-08 Thread Bill Thoen
... (any takers?) - Bill Thoen Dr Rajeev saraf wrote: HI guys: I did not see any documentation in mapx brochure about able to import mif files. is this true? MapX cannot read mif/mid files. if so, then how do we create files using VB and then just viewing it in map window? --- rajeev saraf

MI Corporate influence on the USGS

2000-03-02 Thread Bill Thoen
now have ANOTHER freakin' format to write translators for!!! rant... rant... sputter... @#%$*!! - Bill Thoen -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the me

Re: MI SUM: Advanced Math Operations in MB

2000-02-24 Thread Bill Thoen
nLimit + n) ...and so on. - Bill Thoen -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[mapx] Re: MI subscribe

2000-02-10 Thread Bill Thoen
to be able to read records by map position too, with the map projection usually being State Plane (occasionally UTM or lat/lon.) Do you see any "gotchas" lurking in these areas? Other than that, it's pretty much table and map object manipulation. - Bill Thoen Neil Havermale wrote:

Re: MI MB: Call dll with a 4Bytes float instead of 8Bytes float?

2000-02-10 Thread Bill Thoen
This value is 1097544499 End Sub - Bill Thoen Franck Martin wrote: In MapBasic I declare the following external function : Declare Function getnodevalue Lib "SomeoneDll.dll" (ByVal Index As Integer, ByVal Code As Integer, Value As Float) As Integer and define the following constant

SUM: MI Can MapBasic call routines in ActiveX DLLs?

2000-02-09 Thread Bill Thoen
nd." In addition to Chris, Brad and Richard, thanks also to Mark Crompton, Brad Matthews, "MAPPER MAN", "Geografía y Electrónica, SA de CV", and David Troughear for their responses. - Bill Thoen -- To u

Re: MI Request

2000-02-08 Thread Bill Thoen
use this list for MapX talk too. I'm one who's rather interested in this subject as well, and if I read the writing on the wall correctly, MapX is where MapInfo programming is going. - Bill Thoen -- To unsubscribe from this list,

MI Can MapBasic call routines in ActiveX DLLs?

2000-02-05 Thread Bill Thoen
oes anyone have a small example? I know VB can't do the old style DLLs, but it's VB that I have now, so it would be neat to be able to use to make new style DLLs, if they could be made to work with MapBasic. Can this be done? -

MI SUM: MapBasic training courses - Pro and Con?

2000-02-03 Thread Bill Thoen
create a version of this course (and others) on video tape. Sounds like a pretty good idea to me, and something worth considering. Overall, most people responded positively to the mapbasic courses they’ve taken or had to present, so it seems like it meets most people’s goals, but it’s clear

MI Announce: Jan 2000 message digest available

2000-02-03 Thread Bill Thoen
The Jan 2000 digest for MapInfo-L is available from http://www.directionsmag.com/mapinfo-l/digest/ I fixed the broken links there now too. - Bill Thoen -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put

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