RE: MI MB: Run Command Limitation

2000-09-21 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
Hello Jacques, Interestingly, your program stops at 309 on Pro v4.5, suggesting that the limit was raised in latter versions. The limit has never caused me much of a problem. Most tasks can be broken down or redesigned to accommodate the restriction. Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd

RE: MI MapInfo Certification / Exam

2000-08-15 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
time. The exam was said to be put together based on the technical support query database. Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd, U.K. http://www.europa-tech.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday

RE: MI LAYER_INFO_NAME and ObjectInfo

2000-08-14 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
m obj_type As Integer obj_type = ObjectInfo(ObjAlias, OBJ_INFO_TYPE) Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd, U.K. http://www.europa-tech.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Eric Frost / HR and Associates, Inc. Sent: Monday, Augus

RE: MI Setting label angles

2000-08-14 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
Hello Bob, I'm pretty sure that you can only set label rotation for specific labels, not all in a layer. Try performing a loop which goes through every object in your layer. This however, may not be practical for large table. Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd, U.K. http://www.europa

Re: MI SUM - World Cities Database

2000-05-04 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
y also be important. Needless to say, Global Insight products address all of these issues! Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd, U.K. http://www.europa-tech.com -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL P

RE: MI World Time Zone Data!

2000-02-23 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
nformation and a picture snapshot on our web site at http://www.europa-tech.com Let me know if you have any questions. Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd, U.K. http://www.europa-tech.com -- To unsubscribe from this li

RE: MI Algebra

2000-01-08 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
As an additional to Ole's list, you can get base 10 (or indeed any base) log of x from the natural log function using; (log(x) / log(10)) Replace 10 with any base. Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd, U.K. http://www.europa-tech.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: MI Help for MapInfo Uncombine ?

1999-12-20 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
in a region is not guaranteed to be an include. So, even with a simple donut, the hole may be expressed as the first polygon. Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd, U.K. http://www.europa-tech.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jon Petter N

RE: MI MapBasic : Distance point to line

1999-12-20 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
distance. Also, ensure that very long "straight" lines have a suitable number of coincident nodes. This will reduce errors induced by the geometric straight line vs. great circle path discrepancy. Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd, U.K. http://www.europa-tech.com -Origin

MI Pro generated web maps with info pop-ups

1999-12-20 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
://www.bosrup.com/web/overlib/). There is of course no reason why each of the hot-spots could not link to other web pages. Let me know what you think about it, or if you experience any problems with your IE browser. Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd, U.K. http://www.europa-tech.com

RE: MI Problem with data types

1999-11-26 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
n, the use of format$() to request a particular number of decimal places solves that problem. Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd, U.K. http://www.europa-tech.comt -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAI

RE: MI Looking for European city points

1999-11-25 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
product family with over 73,000 graded places - cost $845. This is just a point gazetteer - if you need reference mapping instead, take a look at the Global Insight products. Full details at http://www.europa-tech.com Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd, U.K. http://www.europa-tech.com

RE: MI-OS projection creating points

1999-11-24 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
London area)? If this field is all there is then I would assume they are expressed to 100m resolution and need to be multiplied up to convert to metres. If you can described your coordinate data fully, I'd be happy to guide you through the coordinate preparation and create points process. Regar

MI RE: ObjectGeography(object, OBJ_GEO_CENTROID)

1999-11-07 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
n, reissue your query using the results in the temporary column. I have tried other methods (casting, etc.) but nothing seems to work, or work well. If anyone has cracked the direct method, do let me know! Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd, U.K. http://www.europ

RE: MI: Geometry Manager - pricing

1999-11-07 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd, U.K. http://www.europa-tech.com -- 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 Problems

1999-11-07 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
by issuing the MB window command; set coordsys table TableName Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd, U.K. http://www.europa-tech.com -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubs

RE: MI zoom display

1999-11-07 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
it to display Zoom (Window Width). Manually switch on your layers one-by-one and zoom in/our until you see your desired range. Note the zoom value for min and max. Finally, in Layer Control set the Zoom Layering parameters to the values. Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd, U.K. http

RE: MI saving toolbar preferences

1999-11-07 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
on the toolbars to bring up the "Toolbar Options" dialog and checking "Save as default". Is there anything with this option that is not being saved? Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd, U.K. http://www.europa-tech.com P.S. This message is free

RE: MI american latina DEM

1999-11-07 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
their nations. Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd, U.K. http://www.europa-tech.com -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or cont

RE: MI Mapinfo coordinates problem

1999-11-07 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
. If I can list the above polylines and edit the coordinates of the polylines ? Answer as 2). Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd, U.K. http://www.europa-tech.com -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL

RE: MI Extracting X and Y Values of Nodes in MapInfo

1999-11-07 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
it into something which could be imported into Access or Excel and then exported as DBF. The best solution would be to write a MapBasic program. It should be a relatively short program which would not take long to develop and would perform your task quickly and easily. Regards, Warren Vick Europa

RE: MI MB: Window Maximize Bug

1999-11-07 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
trying to achieve? Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd, U.K. http://www.europa-tech.com -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body,

RE: MI SUM: Simulated click

1999-10-25 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
page. Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd, U.K. http://www.europa-tech.com -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

MI Query a toggle button's checked state

1999-10-24 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
to tedious workarounds! Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd, U.K. http://www.europa-tech.com -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or cont

RE: MI Expression too complex

1999-10-20 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
e duplicates. Work with ANDs would be a bit more complicated. Sounds like a "data rich" project. Good luck! Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd, U.K. http://www.europa-tech.com -- To unsubscribe from this

RE: MI Writing to a file

1999-10-20 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
or line-by-line file copying with replacement. There is indeed no seek() function native to MapBasic. It's pretty straight forward in a DLL, especially in C where this function has been a long standing part of the standard run-time library, Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd, U.K. http

RE: MI Writing to a file

1999-10-20 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
! Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd, U.K. http://www.europa-tech.com -- 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 Writing to a file

1999-10-20 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
! Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd, U.K. http://www.europa-tech.com -- 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 scripts

1999-10-19 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
nt reaches a certain threshold would be necessary. A good utility would also need to handle multi-polygon regions and multi-segment polylines. Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd, U.K. http://www.europa-tech.com --

RE: MI mapbasic input variables

1999-10-19 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
ression as MI assumes it. Also, it would be wise to have your directory paths implemented as variables rather than hard-coded and also to check for the existence of the copy table before attempting the copy. You can do this with the FileExists() function. Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technolog

RE: MI help

1999-10-19 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
oop which runs through the entered string and extracts the sub-strings/numbers for your array. Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd, U.K. http://www.europa-tech.com -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROT

RE: MI MB sanity check: Insert/Alter Objs/Table

1999-10-19 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
ions". Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd, U.K. http://www.europa-tech.com -- 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 Popup title maximum size

1999-10-18 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
) - try using it to see how bizarre it is. It is more in line with Windows GUI guidelines to have the user enter the number in a dialog editbox and then a button to validate action. Regards, Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd, U.K. http://www.europa-tech.com

RE: MI selecting 10m contours from a 2m contour map

1999-10-14 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
ainder. ie. the result you require. Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd, U.K. http://www.europa-tech.com -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L"

RE: MI Adding Coloumns??????

1999-10-14 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
your table with the expression: first_names+second_names If you wanted a space you would use: first_names+" "+second_names Even with thousands of records, this update will not take too long. Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd, U.K. http:/

RE: MB MI Pro title

1999-10-12 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
a suitable external function declaration. Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd, U.K. http://www.europa-tech.com -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L"

Re: MI WIN_INFO_HEIGHT

1999-10-09 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
luck! P.S. Are you going to the new F1 Grand Prix in KL? Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd, U.K. http://www.europa-tech.com -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubs

Re: Help with MIF: Coordsys/Projection Type

1999-10-08 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
the WGS-84 datum. This is correct for DCW and VMAP0 data. Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd, U.K. http://www.europa-tech.com -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubs

Re: MI clearing the message window

1999-10-08 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
CLS print chr$(12) CLS will not work if you type it in manually into the MI/MB window. You'll have to use print chr$(12). This question is worth an extra 50 cents at $21 Boy am I gonna be rich out of you. :-) Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd, U.K. http://www.europa-tech.com

Re: MI UTM/Korea/Ready-to-Go Grids?

1999-10-07 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
at (317585, 4157043) in UTM52/North. Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd, U.K. http://www.europa-tech.com -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the m

MI Telecom '99 Geneva

1999-10-07 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
Hello all, Any telecoms -L'ers going to the massive ITU event in Geneva next week? Finally arrangements permitting, I hope to be there for a day or two. Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd, U.K. http://www.europa-tech.com

Re: MI Speeding up things

1999-10-07 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
(say 1000 records) and perform some analysis (using tools or perhaps just tweaking) to see what makes a difference. A 0.1 second saving will you a day by my linear reckoning. Of course the thing not to do is spend 10 days think about it... :-) Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd, U.K

Re: MI returning the directory structure leading to an open table

1999-10-07 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
: PathToDirectory$(PathString) Thanks in advance to anybody with the answer to my $20.50 question If only I could earn $20.50 so quickly all the time. :-) Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd, U.K. http://www.europa-tech.com

Re: MI deleting a range of rows

1999-10-07 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
of the records you want to delete and delete the results. For example: select * from TestTable where rowid mod 2 = 0 into TO_DEL ' Select every even record delete from TO_DEL Ditto for updates. Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd, U.K. http://www.europa-tech.com

Re: MI: World Data Bank II question

1999-10-06 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
political mapping (evening including East Timor) and a 19,500 place gazetteer. It's a soft product downloaded from the web and licence purchase includes a years worth of updates free of charge. Full details on our web site at http://www.europa-tech.com Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd

Re: MI accurate draw region

1999-10-06 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
borrowed this divider from another lister. I'd give it back. :-) Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd, U.K. http://www.europa-tech.com -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubs

Re: MI FW: BUFFER INACCURACIES

1999-09-08 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
serious bugs in MapInfo. Given that professionals may stake their reputation on distances and areas, it really does need to be looked at immediately. By the way, complex buffer performance is terrible in v5.5... I've gone back to v5.0. Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd, U

Re: MI: World Places

1999-08-19 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
. For anything other than a basic find, this may not be sufficient positional accuracy. Feel free to e-mail if you have any questions. Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd, U.K. http://www.europa-tech.com