RE: MI Help with MapInfo Application Window resizing

2000-08-23 Thread Martin, Christopher (WSA Telford)
I assume you want to do this in MapBasic? Use the ShowWindow API function. Declare Function ShowWindow Lib "User32" (ByVal hwnd as Long, ByVal nCmdShow as Long) hwnd = window handle; use GetForegroundWindow or GetActiveWindow API calls... nCmdShow: SW_HIDE = 0 SW_MAXIMIZE = 3 SW_MINIMIZE = 6

RE: MI Help me to move a node in MapX 3.5.1

2000-08-18 Thread Jeff James
You need to move one Point object in the Points collection of the Part object of the Parts collection of the Feature object. In other words, your code might look something like this: ftrMyLine.Parts(1).Points(2).Set nNewX, nNewY ftrMyLine.Update Good luck Jeff James Vice President Sage

Re: MI Help me to move a node in MapX 3.5.1

2000-08-18 Thread GTS
Points(2).Set x2, y2 ftr.Update Next Regards, - Ara BR - - Original Message - From: Jeff James [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'GTS' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mapinfo-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 7:26 PM Subject: RE: MI Help me to move a node in MapX 3.5.1 You need to m

RE: MI Help with finding intersection coordinates

2000-08-01 Thread Mark Pollard
Try using the Overlay nodes command first or the intersects command, you could even return the section inside the radius with the overlap function and then find the end node of the segment. hope this helps Mark Pollard Senior Consultant Information Services DRYDEN TECHNOLOGIES Ph:61 (2)

RE: MI Help with Canadian Provincial Abbreviations

2000-07-25 Thread Lindsay Giles
Hello Dara- 1) The correct spelling for it is "Nunavut" 2) To the best of my knowledge, they are both NT - all addresses I have seen within Nunavut carry NT as their descriptor. I could be wrong but I have not seen any other code. Lindsay Giles Senior GIS Analyst AXYS Environmental

RE: MI Help with Canadian Provincial Abbreviations

2000-07-25 Thread John Chioles
According to my sources 1) Nunavut is correct 2) NU is the abbreviation -Original Message- From: Lindsay Giles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 12:13 PM To: 'Thompson, Dara L. (RyTull)'; 'MapInfo-L' Subject: RE: MI Help with Canadian Provincial Abbreviations

RE: MI Help with Canadian Provincial Abbreviations

2000-07-25 Thread Dan Heuman
Dara, Take a look at this web site from Canada Post. http://www.canadapost.ca/CPC2/addrm/addrguide/prov_symbols.html Danny Heuman Senior Director, Custom Research Compusearch Inc. Toronto, Ontario Tel: 416-348-9180 -Original Message- From: Thompson, Dara L. (RyTull) [SMTP:[EMAIL

RE: MI Help with Canadian Provincial Abbreviations

2000-07-25 Thread Lindsay Giles
- From: John Chioles [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 11:47 AM To: 'Lindsay Giles'; 'Thompson, Dara L. (RyTull)'; 'MapInfo-L' Subject:RE: MI Help with Canadian Provincial Abbreviations According to my sources 1) Nunavut is correct 2) NU is the abbreviation

RE: MI Help with Canadian Provincial Abbreviations

2000-07-25 Thread Sean Ramsay
' Subject: RE: MI Help with Canadian Provincial Abbreviations According to my sources 1) Nunavut is correct 2) NU is the abbreviation -Original Message- From: Lindsay Giles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 12:13 PM To: 'Thompson, Dara L. (RyTull)'; 'MapInfo-L

RE: MI Help with Canadian Provincial Abbreviations

2000-07-25 Thread sidney . mclean
Chioles" [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 2000-07-25 03:12 PM: According to my sources 1) Nunavut is correct 2) NU is the abbreviation -Original Message- From: Lindsay Giles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 12:13 PM To: 'Thompson, Dara L. (RyTull)'; 'MapInfo-L' Subject: RE: MI

Re: MI Help with Canadian Provincial Abbreviations

2000-07-25 Thread Patrick Busque
Hello! I'm from Canada and Nunavut was supposed to be NU but then someone at Canada Post taught some french canadian would have been greatly offended by NU which could mean Nude (nue) in french. So Nunavut was NT, some Inuit were not happy about that position so when the story came out, every

RE: MI Help with Coordinate system

2000-06-19 Thread Lindsay Giles
Hi Jack - Have you tried this: Set Coordsys Table "KnownPositions" instead of setting the coordsys from the window? If the projection of the window doesn't match the projection of the table into which you are inserting the point, the point may well be off the map. Cheers, Lindsay Giles

RE: MI HELP!

2000-06-16 Thread Oliver Moffatt
I endorse the "left handed mouse" approach. I'm right handed. Two years ago I was suffering from RSI in my right arm, then I broke my arm badly. I was forced to switch my mouse to my left hand, and have never switched back. I no longer suffer RSI in my right arm. One additional point: I kept

Re: MI HELP!

2000-06-15 Thread Mats Elfström
Vicky Higgins wrote: Has anyone used, or know of any, alternatives to a mouse? Hi Vicky! For several years, I have been using trackballs from Logitech. Using a trackball (an inverted mouse so to say) enables you to place your hand and forearm in the most comfortable way, you will not need

RE: MI HELP!

2000-06-15 Thread Jacques Paris
I did help someone cure her "mouse (=tennis) elbow" some time ago by simply showing her how to use the right mouse button; she was using a large size monitor and doing a lot of map editing via regular menus, hence constant long pointer moves. But as the "short cut" menus are somewhat limited, we

Re: MI Help!

2000-06-15 Thread Carol Sheehan
Vicky, I am so glad that I did not miss your post. Yes, you are not the only one who has problems with using a mouse and nerve/hand problems. There are several of us out there and everyone I know who has this problem has just happened to put some serious time into MapInfo especially with

RE: MI HELP!

2000-06-15 Thread Landis, Bill @ Phoenix
Title: RE: MI HELP! I like Jacques suggestion about creating an mbx that modifies the MI menus, but there is an easier way. Just edit the MAPINFOW.MNU file with a text editor. Those with only the most rudimentary understanding of MapBasic will not have a problem rearranging the commands. 80

RE: MI HELP!

2000-06-15 Thread Justusson Christer
Hi! I've been using MapInfo for 4 years and I have developed same problems as you. My remedies are: 1 Like Jaques suggested I have a customised mbx so I can reach common commands from the keyboard. Today I have rewritten the MapInfo mnu-file instead. Helps a lot and it also makes you much

RE: MI HELP!

2000-06-15 Thread Lindsay Giles
ain Office:403-269-5150 Direct Line:403-750-7671 Fax:403-269-5245 -Original Message- From: Mark Knudsen [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 9:34 PM To: 'Vicky Higgins'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: MI HELP! Vicky, Sorry to hear about yo

Re: MI HELP!

2000-06-15 Thread Tim Rood
a good preventative. So, move some water with your wrist and arms and they'll grow stronger---just don't wreck your shoulder doing it! Tim Rood Ravenna Planning Associates Seattle, WA -- From: Lindsay Giles [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: MI HELP! Date: Thursday, June 15

RE: MI Help!

2000-06-15 Thread Tim Warman
I'm afraid I deleted the suggestion about switching the mouse to the left hand, but a big thanks to whoever it was. My right wrist and hand have been bugging me for months, so I tried the switch this morning and it works great. It's amazing how quickly you can get used to mousing with your left

RE: MI HELP!

2000-06-14 Thread Mark Knudsen
Vicky, Sorry to hear about your problem. I am not being facetious, but I would suggest to everyone who suffers from hand/wrist problems when mousing to try switching hands. It is amazing that we use our right (or left) hands for something like using the mouse simply because we are right

RE: MI Help in creating points!

2000-06-12 Thread Trammell, Nathaniel A.
Perhaps if you defined the steps you took to get all your points plotted on one spot, I can answer better. Create points, Centroid X, then Centroid Y should place them accurately for you. Are you certain that all your rows are coordinates of differing values? (A simple mistake that can have

RE: MI Help in creating points!

2000-06-12 Thread Fran Peck
Jackie, You might check to make sure that the longitude is the Centroid X, and latitude is Cenroid Y. Reversing them creates havoc in the coverage! Short of that, double checking the format of the lat longs would be my next step. Fran Peck Peoria Unified School District 6330 W Thunderbird Rd

RE: MI Help!!! how to translate Arc/Info GRID image to be used in MapInfo

2000-05-26 Thread Lindsay Giles
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Re: MI Help!!! how to translate Arc/Info GRID image to be used in MapInfo

2000-05-25 Thread Tony Elson
+AD4- Hello, there +AD4- +AD4- I have a Arc/Info Grid image which is a fold of files and I'd like to be +AD4- used in MapInfo as either Grid layer or Vector layer. I have tried +AD4- ArcLink but it seems ArcLink does not support GRID format. It simply +AD4- skips the GRD section in +ACo-.E00

RE: MI Help on Bar Chart Map

2000-03-30 Thread Lavoie, Claude
I had the exact same problem with a pie chart a couple of weeks ago (and actually did not find any solution to it); would you please forward any solution to me as well. Thanks in advance. _ Claude Lavoie Service du soutien à la clientèle Direction

Re: MI Help!! Why do I get a .MBO file?

2000-03-11 Thread GeoInfo Solutions Ltd.
Stephen At 11:54 PM 3/10/00 -0500, you wrote: Greetings, And just when I thought I was getting the hang of MB/MI. When I compile my code, MB now compiles it as a .MBO file. I don't know why it does that -- it was compiling fine (i.e., .MBX) before. Then, all of a sudden, it starts compiling

Re: MI Help!! Why do I get a .MBO file?

2000-03-11 Thread Michael Jenne
Stephen, A very common reason for this is that you probably have written code that refers to a sub that is declared but not actually present. As an example, the following: Declare Sub MAIN Declare Sub DUH Sub MAIN Call DUH End Sub ---will compile as an MBO. DUH is declared, but not written.

RE: MI Help with Printer Speed/Size Issues...

2000-03-07 Thread Gabor Vasarhelyi
I understand Mapinfo's "propress" will help with this process. Catch is the price Gabor -Original Message- From: Wyzard [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 2:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:MI Help with Printer Speed/Size Issues... I am running

Re: [MI help help help hlp help no puedo registrarme]

2000-03-06 Thread Jo Jordon Consulting Inc.
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RE: MI help numbering items

2000-03-06 Thread Martin Roundill
Hi Brian, You could use the ROWID function. label the objects with the ROWID (use the expression option and type in ROWID) print the map I tried using a 'select rowid "ID", col1, col2... from mytable' to get a numbered list but it didn't work so here is a work around: (someone may be able to

Re: MI, Help with exporting EPS for offset printing

2000-02-23 Thread John Watson
Hello Tim, What a familiar problem. We had a similar experience building an E sized geological map for Yemen. This was a couple of years back, but what we did was to create an EPS file as you have. We then imported the EPS into Corel Draw as an interpreted Postscript. This creates vectors

RE: MI Help needed for Ecological problem

2000-02-08 Thread Jack Wierzchowski
How about opening up multiple copies of your polygon table (you may have to rename them) and create separate thematic maps showing different "themes". You can then play with the order of the layers to show it in the clearest way. Jack -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: MI Help needed for Ecological problem

2000-02-08 Thread Robert Crossley
I would experiment with the update column command (Table Update column). Choose the table to update as being the polygon table, the table to get the data from as the site coverage; the join criteria as being where the object in the polygon table contains the object of the sites table

RE: MI Help needed for Ecological problem

2000-02-08 Thread Peter Wainwright
Have you considered presenting your data as histograms (numbers of each butterfly species) at the centroid of each polygon with the polygon theme (outlines only, no fill) as a background? Peter Wainwright, LGL Limited 9768 Second St. Sidney, BC, Canada V8L 3Y8 (250) 656-0127 voice (250)

Re: MI Help creating an EPS file from MapInfo for offset printing

1999-12-22 Thread Charles Huyck
There is a freeware program called ghostscript that will do it. If you do a web search it should show up. Open the image and save as .eps. It's also good for creating jpgs from layouts. -- To unsubscribe from this list,

Re: MI Help creating an EPS file from MapInfo for offset printing

1999-12-22 Thread Rod Dawney
Gary, I'd like to use this opportunity to wish all on the list BEST WISHES FOR THE FESTIVE SEASON and a HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR. Thanks to you all for such a great resource - special thanks to Bill and to those heavy and/or compulsive contributors. Now to your problem Gary, Our printer

RE: MI Help for MapInfo Uncombine ?

1999-12-20 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
Hello Jon Petter, On the surface of it, an uncombine function doesn't seem complicated, but from experience I know there are several things that complicate the solution. MB provides an easy way of extracting the Nth polygon from a region using the ExtractNodes() function. If the begin_node and

RE: MI help

1999-10-19 Thread Warren Vick, Europa Technologies Ltd.
Hello Susan, I think this might be a fairly easy one (I hope!) I'm trying to build an array based off of user input. In the custom dialog there will only be on Edit Text box for the user to input the data. There will also be a Control Button titled "Next". The gist of it being that after