MI Alter mapinfodialog question

Hi I'd like to alter behaviour of mapinfo standard dialog box 1) : mapinfo dialog showed when you delete the before last node of a polyne or polygone what ae the control id used to disable buttons or to change dialog text 1) when you open a table i'd like to alter the visualisation mode

MI DDE or alternatives

Hi, I currently write applications that converse with word using DDE. Some of these apps might be controlled themselves by Vis basic, others are purely MBXs. What I 'm after is a good source of info, or pointers to using other methods of integration (OLE?). Apart from the mapbasic samples and

MI Workspace to Geoset with MapBasic

Is there any way to convert a workspace to a geoset by using MapBasic-script? I'd like to convert a lot of workspaces to geosets and using some kind of batch in MapBasic would speed up this proces significantly. I tried it, but my attempts have failed so far. Please let me know if and how this

Re: MI Workspace to Geoset with MapBasic

I think you should be able to modify geoset.mbx if MapInfo will provide the source code... Is there any way to convert a workspace to a geoset by using MapBasic-script? I'd like to convert a lot of workspaces to geosets and using some kind of batch in MapBasic would speed up this proces

Re: MI Double Click in a OLE Application

Javier, Yes, this is doable but you are better off thinking about a callback from a custom tool rather than a double click event. When the callback event is fired it will callback to vb and then you can get your data via a variety of methods and show it in a form etc. To get started, look in

MIF Files

Hi, I'm trialing a product that imports MIF files. It is a windows product and of course I'm on mac. I can export a file to MIF via the Mac but how do I get the WIN product see it. Can I alter the header of the MIF via a text editor to make it suitable? Other than that, I would like to locate

MI Precise size of std printouts??

Greetings All: Can someone point me to someplace that lists the precise sizes of all the standard printed pages (ie: A1, A3, A4, etc)?? I know there are a lot them. I don't have to deal with them enough to keep straight which is which, so a reference guide would be of great value to me.

MI ? regarding font editors to edit mapinfo's map symbols a truetypefont

I am posting a question pertaining to a font editor out there that will enable me to edit/add symbols to mapinfo's map symbols true type fonts. I have been emailing a tech support rep. who has mentioned fontographer as being a font editor. I have not been able to locate the package. Is anyone

RE: MI Scheduling a MapBasic Program

Hi Mark Try MITIMER a freeware .exe that sends "timer ticks" to Mapinfo. I haven´t yet used it my self but I am interested in any of your experience with it. The link is: ftp://www.mapinfo.dk/pub/tools/ Regards Thomas Brix Lyng Denmark -- Fra: Matthews, Mark[SMTP:[EMAIL

MI MapInfo 5.0 Doughnut style buffering

I need to find an mbx. which creates doughnut style buffers. I have 1100 polygon object which need buffers that would exclude the area of the object they are created around. This cannot be achieved using the "erase" tool in Mao Info because of tangent polygons. Thanks for your time James Janning

RE: MI ? regarding font editors to edit mapinfo's map symbols a truetypefont

I have used SOFTY with satisfactory results (for me at least) http:/home.iclweb/com/icl1/d.w.emmett. There is a shareware version if you want to try it. Jacques Paris e-mail alternate [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] paris PC Consult (mainly MapInfo app.)

MI Garmin waypoints

I have a Garmin GPS unit want to download waypoints plotted on the unit to a map layer in MapInfo. Has anyone tried this before? Thanks. Tom Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list,

MI plot problem

Hello list, I have a layout which uses custom fonts/symbols. When plotted the map window plots fine, but in the legend, these custom fonts/symbols are very foggy. I am keeping the same layout, but zoom to different areas in the map window. Some maps plot fine, but some have this legend

MI thematic map/custom symbols

i created several small bmps to represent tower types. this worked fine and showed up perfectly on my maps. i needed to change one a bit, and when i replaced the one that was working fine with the new one, it quit working altogether. now the style type selecter in "modify thematic map" can't see

Re:MI Clip Region not clipping text

My question is how do I display text objects only inside a given region? The simplest way I have found to do this is to create a mask in the cosmetic layer to cover the offending text. If the area is rectangular, create a white, opaque rectangle or polygon around the area to be printed that's

Re:MI Clip Region not clipping text

At 12:31 PM 01/25/2000 -0800, Ron Simpson wrote: My question is how do I display text objects only inside a given region? The simplest way I have found to do this is to create a mask in the cosmetic layer to cover the offending text. If the area is rectangular, create a white, opaque rectangle

MI web Based TargetPro

Hello - Is there a web site I can use TargetPro functionality from a browser? OR Is the Web - Based TargetPro functionality mixed into the TargetPro SDK? Just wondering how long it would take get TargetPro functionality, (clicking tabs and choosing demographics) into an application? Is the

RE: MI thematic map/custom symbols

Jory, The first thing that comes to mind to check: make sure you didn't save the bitmap as a 24-bit bitmap, or for that matter, anything more than a 256-color bitmap. (From MS Paint, when you save, click File Save As, check out the Save As Type area at the bottom of the Save As dialog.) Hope

Re: MI Clip Region not clipping text

Steve Wallace wrote: Actually, Clip Region is supposed to clip text too. I remember back under one of the previous releases of MI Pro that this would not work right. Maybe you need to look for a patch on www.mapinfo.com, update the drivers on your video, or fork out more money for the latest

Re: MI Precise size of std printouts??

Robert You asked "Can someone point me to some place that lists the precise sizes of all the standard printed pages (ie: A1, A3, A4, etc)" You can figure out the precise sizes from these three rules 1. The members of the family of standard metric paper sizes are, in decreasing size, A0,

MI Seamless splicing in Vertical Mapper?

I am trying to splice many 1:24,000 DEM's, but i want a seamless complete coverage. I keep getting NULLs that are messing up the image. Please help, how do I get rid of the NULLS so that I can splice all these DEM's together! I haven't used Vertical Mapper that much, but it seams like it

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Re: MI Clip Region not clipping text

Steve Wallace wrote: Actually, Clip Region is supposed to clip text too. I remember back under one of the previous releases of MI Pro that this would not work right. Maybe you need to look for a patch on www.mapinfo.com, update the drivers on your video, or fork out more money for the

re: MI web Based TargetPro

There is a free demographic report demo available under www.mapinfo.com/targetpro which utilizes a small subset of TargetPro functionality. The ReportZone service (www.reportzone.com) is another example which incorporates some thematic mapping of select demographic variables. Each of these

MI Exporting back to Microstation

Hi... I am having problems trying to convert a MapInfo TAB/MIF file back to Microstation. There is no problem when I want to convert shapes back to Microstation, but when I try to bring in the labels with it, I can not get the labels...does anyone know why or how I can get around this. I am

MI MapBasic training courses - Pro and Con?

If anyone here has taken or given MapBasic programming training courses (official or otherwise), I would like to hear what you thought of them. Specifically, what do you think were the good points in material, presentation, excercises, examples, etc., and what were the weakest spots? Also in the

RE: MI MapBasic training courses - Pro and Con?

I took a class in MapBasic a couple of years ago at General Analytics in McLean, VA. High points included: excellent documentation, competent instructor, one PC per student and real world in-class exercises. Low points included not enough time spent on in-class exercises. Matt Fowler Solid

RE: MI Scheduling a MapBasic Program

There is a simple call to an API function that will enable a timer to become part of an mbx routing. If this is the direction you are going then email me. Brad Judson -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL