Re: MI Grid file

Andrew, 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

VS: MI Grid file

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 possible

MI RE: Invoking MapInfo Pro from VB application

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

RE: MI Drive Time Program

Title: RE: MI Drive Time Program Rumours of the demise of RouteView are greatly exaggerated 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

MI SUM of CentroidXY

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

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

MI selecting objects

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 haven't

MI Info tool window

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

Re: MI Grid file

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

MI MapInfo and Windows 2000

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

RE: MI MapInfo and Windows 2000

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

MI Interactive Web-mapping

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

MI VM2

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

MI Problem converting .shp file

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

Re: MI Grid file

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 Shortcoming of MapInfo's SQL

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

Re: MI Shortcoming of MapInfo's SQL

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

Re: MI Interactive Web-mapping

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

MI Buffering on an NT workstation

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