Re. MI dxf-export

1999-07-12 Thread brian . forrester
Andy, I gave up on Autocad at R13 so I haven't used R14 DXF files. What I do know is that Autodesk started adding all sorts of extra sections to DXF files in R13, with even more in R14 (to do with transferring extra R13/R14 functionality via DXF's). Just to check the basics though, make sure

MI Minding Your Business with MapInfo

1999-07-12 Thread Gareth Hardman
Mappers, Has any one bought the book entitled "Minding Your Business with MapInfo" by Whitener Davis? If so what were your requirements - did it fulfil them - i.e. is it worth the purchase? Gareth Hardman Saturn Technologies

MI FREE Y2K Unit Mapbasic Code

1999-07-12 Thread Patrick C. McShane
This is totally free, a must for all MapBasic programmers. This MapBasic source code enables you (the developer) to perform validation and integrity checks on dates entered into dialogs by users. The code checks the date string for a four digit year, none date characters, string to date

MI Businesses in Circles

1999-07-12 Thread Mike C Kallas
Any suggestions? I'm trying to determine the number of businesses within several circles. I have a TAB file named circles and can get a count of the TOTAL businesses in the circles, however I need the COUNT for individual circles. I believe I could name all the circles and change the names

MI batch pack table

1999-07-12 Thread Matt.Wilkie
Hi, Does anybody know a way of packing tables in batch mode? I have about 3 thousand to go through. Also, are there any known problems with data integrity when packing tables? I'd hate to pack everything and then find out 6 months or a year from now I've lost data. Or worse yet, not notice

RE: MI Minding Your Business with MapInfo

1999-07-12 Thread Korkovelos, Dina, CPG
Gareth, Yes, I bought the book. I found that it was not technically oriented at all. Really was just a very broad look at GIS and what you can do with it. Didn't really explain the concepts of GIS, nor was it imaginative in its discussion of MI/GIS capabilities. Dina Korkovelos GIS Analyst

Re: MI MapBasic crashes when I'm linking

1999-07-12 Thread Sam Kome
Bjorn, Have you tried recompiling each module in the project? You may have modules compiled with different versions of the Mapbasic compiler. Sam Kome Sage Software, Inc - Original Message - From: Bjorn Veltman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 09, 1999 5:57

Re: MI Polygon reshaping

1999-07-12 Thread Sam Kome
Milo, Be sure to check the system preferences (Options menu) for the Map Window. Reshape can be configured to move/not move overlapping nodes from there. Sam Kome Sage Software, Inc. - Original Message - From: Milo Simonic To: Mapinfo-l Sent: Thursday, July 08,

RE: MI - utility for squaring polygons??

1999-07-12 Thread Ken Fioretti
Mick, If the minimum bounding rectangle of each building is close in size to the desired square\rectangle, you can use the MBR() function to create a rectangle from the existing poylgon with the following: Update table Set obj = MBR(obj) Hope it helps, Ken Fioretti

MI Landscape printing

1999-07-12 Thread Sorak Lillian (ism1lxs)
Hello, One solution to printing in landscape mode without user interaction is to rotate your map by 90 degrees, rotate any labels, then print in portrait mode. Label rotation is slow for maps with many labels, though. Map rotation can be performed with the following VB code.

Re: MI ImageMapinfo

1999-07-12 Thread Daniel Phillips
Sorry everyone!! The correct URL is http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/liv.strategy/apps/freegift/imagemap.htm Dan Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Martyn Shedd [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MapInfo Open Listing [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 11, 1999 9:17 PM Subject: MI

MI Rotating a selection of labels

1999-07-12 Thread O'Connell, Greg (EXPL)
I have little familiarity with MapBasic, so could anyone please assist I would like to rotate a selection of my MapInfo labels (there are too many to edit individually). Note: I do not wish to rotate all of my labels (I use a "Discover" utility to do this). I want the labels

MI 5.5 and Oracle 8i

1999-07-12 Thread Prescott, Christopher (DEHAA)
On page 377 of the MapInfo 5.5 Users Guide the syntax is given for a 'Tesselation Error Workaround for Oracle 8.1.5'. Firstly, What is the Tesselation Error? The manual ownly mentions how to fix it and does not describe the problem. Secondly, I've entered the workaround but on executing it in