MI Educational use of MapInfo Products

2000-08-19 Thread Neil Havermale
For those of you who know the MidNight Mapper I hope you will not overly discount my comments in regards to educational use and licensing of MapInfo technologies. When MapInfo gets berated because its "not conforming to an ESRI practice" well shame on us. I hope we are better than they. ESRI

Re: Fw: MI Is MapInfo going to die?

2000-08-19 Thread Alim Kucukpehlivan
Hi All, Bill Thoen wrote; ESRI's going to be busy rethinking again now that Microsoft is retiring all the old COM and DCOM stuff in favor of this new (and incompatible) thing called "C-sharp." I checked www.microsoft.com and couldn't find anything related with "C-sharp". is this a rumour,

RE: MI Educational use of MapInfo Products

2000-08-19 Thread Jacques Paris
from Neil Havermale: Then you'll need a letter from the individual or department on letterhead asking for the Educational Discount with a brief disclosure of how its going to be used. Along side this cover letter must be a Department PO for the requested order. Data is not discounted.

MI MB: Essential Tool for Coordinate System, Lost Info and MSG window etc

2000-08-19 Thread Ahmet Dabanli
Hello everybody, I've bored from opening Mapbasic window and writing "set map coordsys window frontwindow()" and Loosing Info/Mesage Window i write a utility and want to share with you, Add this utilility to your startup.wor under Mapinfo installation directory as Run application

Re: Fw: MI Is MapInfo going to die?

2000-08-19 Thread Bill Thoen
Sorry, I should have said "C#". C sharp is (and I'm still a little fuzzy on the details) the language that will be used under their Microsoft .NET initiative just announced late last June. See http://www.microsoft.com/net/ for more details. It's really the Microsoft .NET that is the big deal. -

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

2000-08-19 Thread Bill Thoen
Alim Kucukpehlivan wrote: I checked www.microsoft.com and couldn't find anything related with "C-sharp". is this a rumour, or are there any links that we can find more information. Here's more about how .NET will affect COM and DCOM from PC World:

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

2000-08-19 Thread Jacques Paris
Short of solving the "lock" problem, here is a way to "redocked" toolpads. fix_pads.mbx is a "ButtonPad Master". It registers their positions whenever you want (it does it automatically when it starts with a clean slate) in an INI file. It will restore them if they are displaced with a simple