Re: MI Mapbasic Create table statement
Hi Dan you can also use "run command mycommand" where mycommand is a string like that : Dim mycommand as String mycommand = "Create Table"+chr$(34)+ "mynewtablename"+chr$(34)+"(field1 Char(10)) file"+chr$(34)+ "c:\temp\mynewtablename.TAB"+chr$(34)+" TYPE NATIVE Charset+chr$(34)+ "WindowsLatin1"+chr$(34) run command mycommand The string "mycommand" rebuilt the create table statement but with this kind of syntax you can specify the parameter you want even to create non native table like dbf or ascii I hope this could help you stephane "Clark, Daniel (CRTLDN)" a écrit : Hi List, Is it possible to use a string variable as the table name in the MapBasic 'Create Table' statement? (ie the variable contains a user specified table name from a dialog) I have tried the following: Create Table UserTable (Ring Smallint, Radius Smallint, Units Char(10), Statistics Smallint) File TableName Create Map For Buffer Where UserTable is the variable containing the name of the table as specified by the user. When this is run I get the message "Expression does not evaluate to a column or table name" Any help will be apprieciated. Dan Clark ( Tel +44 20 7842 5066 Ê Fax +44 20 7842 5276 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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 Mapbasic Create table statement
Title: Mapbasic Create table statement Hi List, Is it possible to use a string variable as the table name in the MapBasic 'Create Table' statement? (ie the variable contains a user specified table name from a dialog) I have tried the following: Create Table UserTable (Ring Smallint, Radius Smallint, Units Char(10), Statistics Smallint) File TableName Create Map For Buffer Where UserTable is the variable containing the name of the table as specified by the user. When this is run I get the message "Expression does not evaluate to a column or table name" Any help will be apprieciated. Dan Clark ( Tel +44 20 7842 5066 Fax +44 20 7842 5276 * [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: MI Mapbasic Create table statement
Title: Mapbasic Create table statement Hi Dan. Here's an example that works for me. The FileSaveAsDlg() function prompts user to specify a table name, and returns the full path info for the specified location. You then need to use PathToTableName$() to extract the tab name from the full path. Tim Nuteson Target Corp. Dim NewFile, NewTab as String NewFile = FileSaveAsDlg(, , TAB, Create New Table) If NewFile = Then 'cancelled Exit Sub Else NewTab = PathToTableName$(NewFile) End If ' create the table Create Table NewTab (Name Char(30)) File NewFile -Original Message-From: Clark, Daniel (CRTLDN) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 9:08 AMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: MI Mapbasic Create table statement Hi List, Is it possible to use a string variable as the table name in the MapBasic 'Create Table' statement? (ie the variable contains a user specified table name from a dialog) I have tried the following: Create Table UserTable (Ring Smallint, Radius Smallint, Units Char(10), Statistics Smallint) File TableName Create Map For Buffer Where UserTable is the variable containing the name of the table as specified by the user. When this is run I get the message Expression does not evaluate to a column or table name Any help will be apprieciated. Dan Clark ( Tel +44 20 7842 5066 Fax +44 20 7842 5276 * [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MI MapBasic: dec to hex
Hello all, I know that MapBasic offers a function to convert hexadecimal values into decimal numbers. But what I am looking for is a way to do the contrary: convert decimal into hexadecimal numbers. Browsing through the list's archive I found that this question has been posted to the list before. Unfortunately I didn't find the corresponding answer and my e-mail to the sender of the question has not reached the recipient. Any help will be appreciated. Holger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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 MapBasic: dec to hex
Holger, Here is the function I use for conversion. Anssi '* Function Hex(ByVal iInput As Integer, ByVal iFormat As Integer) As String Dim x As Integer Dim i, iDummy As SmallInt Dim sGlyph, sOut As String x = iInput Do While 1 i=i+1 iDummy = (x/16^(i-1)) Mod 16 Do Case iDummy Case 10 sGlyph = "A" Case 11 sGlyph = "B" Case 12 sGlyph = "C" Case 13 sGlyph = "D" Case 14 sGlyph = "E" Case 15 sGlyph = "F" Case Else sGlyph = Str$(iDummy) End Case sOut = sGlyph + sOut If x 16^i Then Exit Do End If Loop If iFormat Then iDummy = iFormat-Len(sOut) If iDummy 0 Then sOut = String$(iDummy,"0") sOut Else sOut = Right$(sOut,iFormat) End If End If Hex = sOut End Function '*** - Original Message - From: Holger Sternad [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 10:21 AM Subject: MI MapBasic: dec to hex Hello all, I know that MapBasic offers a function to convert hexadecimal values into decimal numbers. But what I am looking for is a way to do the contrary: convert decimal into hexadecimal numbers. Browsing through the list's archive I found that this question has been posted to the list before. Unfortunately I didn't find the corresponding answer and my e-mail to the sender of the question has not reached the recipient. Any help will be appreciated. Holger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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 Mapbasic Flowcharter tool???
Greetings , Does anybody know if such a tools exists, that will read in Mapbasic code, and output a flowchart or logical representation of it?? Regards Peter Doyle TELSTRA NTG Global Connect OnAir Networks Queensland Geographical Information Systems Mapping ' +61 7 34064304 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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 Mapbasic - object rotation
hi Chris, all This function rotate a region with the angel v, around the centroide of the object. Note that the function only rotates a simpel region with one polygon NB - there was an error in my first mail Function RotateObj(byval o as object, byval v as float )as object dim i, N as Integer, NewObj as object, NewX, NewY, X, Y, cx, cy, AngelRad as float RotateObj = o AngelRad = v * DEG_2_RAD if objectInfo(o, obj_info_type) = obj_type_region then N = ObjectInfo(o, OBJ_INFO_NPNTS) Create Region into Variable NewObj 0 cx = centroidx(o) cy = centroidy(o) For i = 1 to N X = ObjectNodeX(o, 1, i) - cx Y = ObjectNodeY(o, 1, i) - cy NewX = cx + ((X * cos(AngelRad)) - (y * sin(AngelRad))) NewY = cy + ((X * Sin(AngelRad)) + (y * Cos(AngelRad))) Alter Object NewObj Node Add ( Newx, Newy ) Next Alter Object NewObj Geography OBJ_GEO_CENTROID, CreatePoint(cX, cY) RotateObj = NewObj else print "object is not a region" end if end function Med venlig hilsen Peter Laulund * Kort Matrikelstyrelsen · www.kms.dk National Survey and Cadastre - Denmark Rentemestervej 8 · DK 2400 København NV E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] · Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +45 3587 5050 · Direct: +45 3587 5173 * "galmala" [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 2000 09 06 01:13:04 Til:[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: Peter Laulund/MI/KMS) Vedrørende:MI Mapbasic - object rotation Hey there guys, I have written a simple mapbasic script/routine that plots various rectangles from data on a table. What I would like to do next is be able to rotate these objects I know that you can rotate symbols, but is there any statement / function to rotate ojects (rectangles created from Create Rect)??? Thanks in advance, Chris Hey there guys, I have written a simple mapbasic script/routine that plots various rectangles from data on a table. What I would like to do next is be able to rotate these objects I know that you can rotate symbols, but is there any statement / function to rotate ojects (rectangles created from Create Rect)??? Thanks in advance, Chris
MI mapbasic: clear cosmetic layer
dear all, how can i clear a rectangle or another object from the cosmetic layer in mapbasic? thx Daniel Budmiger -- 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 mapbasic: clear cosmetic layer
delete from layerinfo(frontwindow(),0,1) That works from the MapBasic window. Could replace frontwindow() by any mapper name Jacques PARIS e-mail[EMAIL PROTECTED] For MapInfo support, see the Paris PC Consult enr. site at http://www.total.net/~rparis/gisproducts.htm -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Daniel Budmiger Sent: September 1, 2000 2:40 AM To: Mapinfo User Group Subject: MI mapbasic: clear cosmetic layer dear all, how can i clear a rectangle or another object from the cosmetic layer in mapbasic? thx Daniel Budmiger -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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 MapBasic 4.0 and 5.0
Hello Lists, Our tech. support department is planning to upgrade our MapBasic from ver. 4.0 to 5.0 or higher. Could you kindly share any info on these two version - what was the difference(s)? Any significant enhancements? We are still using MapInfo 5.0 - Can we use mbx program created in the latest version with the earlier MapInfo, for example: mbx made in 5.5 to be used in MI 5.0? Thanking you all in advance. Gatot Purnomo PT. GEONUSA INFOTAMA (GEOINFO) Tel. 62-21-82413187, 8200167 Fax. 62-21-8200167 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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 MapBasic 4.0 and 5.0
GPurnomo wrote: Could you kindly share any info on these two version - what was the difference(s)? Any significant enhancements? We are still using MapInfo 5.0 - Can we use mbx program created in the latest version with the earlier MapInfo, for example: mbx made in 5.5 to be used in MI 5.0? Hi Gatot! The policy of MI Corporation is to release MI Pro and MB versions hand-in-hand. This is to enable programmers to use the new functions of each release in programming. If you do not want to do this, it is perfectly all right to continue programming in v 4 and run the code in MI v5, 5.5 and so on. But because code that have been compiled in MB v5 may contain functions not available in MI v4, MapInfo checks the version stamp of the MBX and refuses to run an MBX with a higher version than itself. So to conclude: If you need the new v5 or 6 functions you must upgrade your MapBasic but at the same time, you must be aware that older MI versions will not be able to run your programs. Search the archives of this list for a number of tips to circumcise this problem, it is possible to alter the MBX header but you must be sure to NOT use the newest functions for this to work. Another solution is to keep copies of the old compiler - the manuals describe how to use the compiler from the command line. It must also be said that apart from the version upgrades, absolutely nothing has been changed in the programming environment - it is still very simple to say the least. What we would need are for example template constructs, codeword coloring, realtime syntax check, visual dialog creation etc all of which are common in programming tools of today. But I doubt it will ever happen. Regards, Mats.E -- 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 MapBasic/Oracle733
hello
I have a problem getting my table mapped. I am now using MapInfo 4.5
and oracle733. I am writing the following code:
**
Include "mapbasic.def"
'Include "C:\MapBasic\menu.def"
Declare Sub Main
Sub Main
Dim ConNum As Integer
ConNum = Server_Connect("qelib","DSN=WareHouse;PWD=map;SRVR=House")
Server ConNum Link Table
"Select * from Customer_Data"
Into temp
Server ConNum Create Map For "Customer_Data"
Type XYINDEX("Longitude", "Latitude")
'Longitude and latitude is the names of the two columns that
'contains x,y coord.-info.
CoordSys Earth Projection 1, 0
ObjectType Point
Symbol (35,0,12)
Server ConNum Disconnect
End Sub 'Main
***
Something is very wrong in this codebut what??
thank you very much
haavard
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MI: Mapbasic calling DLL's in Win98
I don't think this is a MI related problem, but you never know... My Mapbasic application returns with an error message when it tries to make a DLL call on a Windows 98 platform. On Windows NT things work just fine. Anyone ran into a similar problem? By the way, the DLL was home-made (written in Visual C++), so maybe the problem is over there. Anyone familiar with writing DLL's which work on multiple Windows platforms? Or is this a Windows 98 issue? Any help will be greatly appreciated! Bart Maes -- 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 Mapbasic getting variables into brush styles.
Dear all I know this is simple but I can't get it to work. Basically I want to put a chosen colour from a dialog popupmenu into a variable and then into a fill colour for a polygon. The following line is where I am trying to set the colour of my polygon table, Can_col is the variable which has the colour code number. Set Map Layer 2 Display Global Global Brush (2, Can_col ,16777215) Should I have the variable in " "'s or between + +'s, I've tried allsorts but can't get the program to compile. Please tell me where I'm going wrong, how do you get a variable into something like this? Thanks in advance Simon - Rivers and Coastal Section WS Atkins Warrington Tel: 01925 622029 Fax: 01925 622054 - This email and any attached files are confidential and copyright protected. If you are not the addressee, any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. Unless otherwise expressly agreed in writing, nothing stated in this communication shall be legally binding. -- 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 Mapbasic getting variables into brush styles.
I want to put a chosen colour from a dialog popupmenu into a variable and then into a fill colour for a polygon. The following line is where I am trying to set the colour of my polygon table, Can_col is the variable which has the colour code number. Set Map Layer 2 Display Global Global Brush (2, Can_col ,16777215) It works this way: Dim s As String s = Set Map Layer 2 Display Global Global Brush (2, " + Can_col + ",16777215)" Run Command s -- 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 Mapbasic getting variables into brush styles. (Correction)
I forgot a quotation mark at the beginning of the string: Dim s As String s = "Set Map Layer 2 Display Global Global Brush (2, " + Can_col + ", 16777215)" Run Command s -- 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 MapBasic-tool for making houses rectangular
I think I have seen a tool at http://www.directionsmag.com/tools/ that can help me make my freshly digitalized houses rectangular. But I can't find it now. Have anyone seen or used such an application? Best Regards -Christian Malmquist- -- 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 MapBasic Onerror error?
Hi, I have a MapBasic application that contains various Onerror statements. One error-handling routine contains an Open Table command (to allow me to edit a particular table before closing the program), the application runs the onerror statement upto the Open Table command and then displays the standard MapInfo error statement (application name, line number, error) and then stops without opening the table or continuing through the rest of the onerror routine. Has anyone else experienced this? Has anyone any suggestions? thanks, Barry ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. ** -- 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 MapBasic Question
Thanks in advance! I have a bunch of files that require a change from vertical to horizonal. Such as: From 123 456 789 101112 131415 to: 123,456,789,101112,131415 These files are super long. Result will have to at least 256 values wide. I seem to remember back in my FORTRAN days that a write to file followed by a , or ; would suppress the line feed/CR. Can't for the life of me figure it out in MapBasic (without use of a super long Format statement). Hope there is a simple solution. Thanks Roy -- 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 MapBasic Visual Dialog Builder -- Just Released
Hello all, I just finished the beta for DiaBuilder forvisually building MB Dialogs. Thebeta/demo isfully functional,with the exception of only accepting one of each control, something of a individual use The full registered version will handleall you need, more of a developers use. Written in Delphi, so no install, registry or other baggage. Will be posting on the web in the next day Send me a mail if you want a copy.. Trey Pattillo[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.wap3.com
MI - MapBasic lists
Mappers, I'm having a problem with MapBasic. Is it possible to create a drop-down list within a dialog box of files currently open. From what I gather, drop-down boxes (popupmenu) seem to be pretty static, and I can't seem to find a way of making it list files 'on the fly'. If anyone could help me with the code on this I'd be very appreciative. On a similar line, how can I list what columns a file has? Many thanks in advance, Tom -- 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 - MapBasic lists
Hi Tom, One of the ways I do it, is through Global variables (I know programmers should not use Globals). With a global array you can resize it inside on of the handler routines. This may not work as written, as I re-hashed some of my current code to make it easier to read, but the basic concept is the same. This is what I do for a ListBox: 1) Make a selection, put it into a temporary table, pull out the required column into a Global Array (gaszPickSiteName) Select SiteName from DCCMatches where SiteName "" Group by SiteName Order by SiteName into TT ReDim gaszPickSiteName(TableInfo(TT, TAB_INFO_NROWS)) For snLoop = 1 to TableInfo(TT, TAB_INFO_NROWS) Fetch Rec snLoop From TT gaszPickSiteName(snLoop) = Str$(TT.SiteName) Next 2) ListBox Control Control ListBox Width 50 Height 70 Position 5, 35 ID PICKSECTORLISTBOX Calling UpdateSectorListBox 3) Handler Routine Sub UpdateListBox() Dim snReadSelValue, snLoop, snCounter As SmallInt Dim szSiteName As String ' *** Only 1 item at once, sorry ' *** (returns 0 if no items selected). ' *** Value returned is the same as ROWn from TT snReadSelValue = ReadControlValue(PICKSECTORLISTBOX) snCounter = 0 If (snReadSelValue 0) Then Fetch Rec snReadSelValue from TT szSiteName = TT.SiteName For snLoop = 1 to TableInfo(TT, TAB_INFO_NROWS) Fetch Rec snLoop From TT If Str$(TT.SiteName) szSiteName Then snCounter = snCounter + 1 gaszPickSiteName(snLoop) = Str$(TT.SiteName) End If Next ReDim gaszPickSiteName(snCounter) Alter Control PICKSECTORLISTBOX Title From Variable gaszPickSiteName Close Table TMP End If End Sub Hope that this helps, Mark -Original Message- From: Tom Manson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 9:00 AM To: 'MapInfo-L' Subject: MI - MapBasic lists Mappers, I'm having a problem with MapBasic. Is it possible to create a drop-down list within a dialog box of files currently open. From what I gather, drop-down boxes (popupmenu) seem to be pretty static, and I can't seem to find a way of making it list files 'on the fly'. If anyone could help me with the code on this I'd be very appreciative. On a similar line, how can I list what columns a file has? Many thanks in advance, Tom -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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 - MapBasic lists
"Crompton, Mark" wrote: One of the ways I do it, is through Global variables (I know programmers should not use Globals). With a global array you can resize it inside on of Not exactly; programmers should not use *uncontrolled* globals. Even everyone's favorite whipping boy, the lowly-regarded Goto, has it's place (but 99% of the time that place is the wastebasket.) Module scope globals are almost required for any MapBasic dialog beyond the trivial. For those, I just create a separate module for the dialog, and then use 'dim' to define globals I need. That way there's little chance that a global there can foul some other part of the application. Defining variables as 'global' instead of 'dim' at the module level is what I'd call uncontrolled, and should only be done if you want to live in interesting times. Besides, anyone who programs in MapBasic already has to compromise his or her sense of purity to a certain extent. In a language where there are no function-level static variables and NO private functions anywhere, you can only be so holy about it. Especially when it comes to dealing with MapBasic dialog structures. Your global array is easily a module-scoped variable, and the use you make of it is clever, obvious and totally appropriate. I wouldn't put down the use of globals here. - Bill Thoen GISnet, 1401 Walnut St., Suite C, Boulder, CO 80302 tel: 303-786-9961, fax: 303-443-4856 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ctmap.com/gisnet -- 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 Mapbasic 6.0 / strange window behaviour
David Seems to happen on my machine as well. It doesn't occur when the toolbar is docked though. Alternatively you could add the following statement although it causes a 'flash' of the window (i.e. notepad in your example) Note statement Set Window MAPINFO Front Regards Michael -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 11:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MI Mapbasic 6.0 / strange window behaviour Hello mappers I have recently recompiled an existing mapbasic application to run under version 6.0 and have noticed that when using the "NOTE" command called from a pushbutton the mapinfo window disappears after the user clicks the OK button and whatever other application a user may have running appears instead. To reproduce the error proceed exactly as follows:- 1) Load an application such as Notepad 2) Perform an action in this window (type some text or maximize the window for example) 3) Load Mapinfo 4) Run the attached code 5) Click on the OK button and hey presto the notepad window appears or is it just my set up? I was wondering if other developers have experienced this or can anyone reproduce the same behaviour? Many Thanks Owen PS:- I'm running on NT 4 / service pack 5. *** DECLARE SUB MAIN DECLARE SUB NOTE INCLUDE "ICONS.DEF" INCLUDE "MAPBASIC.DEF" SUB MAIN CREATE BUTTONPAD "TEST" AS PUSHBUTTON CALLING NOTE ICON MI_ICON_OPEN_FILE HELPMSG "NOTE TEST" POSITION (1,1) UNITS "IN" WIDTH 1 END SUB SUB NOTE NOTE "See what happens when you click OK" END SUB *** -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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 Mapbasic - Reading if text object has carriage returns
This has to besimple ! I am just trying to figure out if a text object textstring (returned by ObjectInfo(obj, OBJ_INFO_TEXTSTRING) has carriage returns. Is there an easy way aside from looping through all characters and checking for carriage returns by converting each character using ASC() ? Thanks in advance ! Salutations. Dany BouchardDBx Geomatics38 de l'OrbiteHull, QuébecCanadaJ9A 3C7Téléphone/Telephone: 819.743.3870Télécopieur/Fax: 819.775.3264Courrier électronique/Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Page Web/Web site: http://www.dbxgeomatics.com/home.aspVitrine technologique SVG / SVG Technology Preview: http://www.dbxgeomatics.com/svg.asp
MI mapbasic 3 and/or 4.5 wanted
Hi, not sure if the list is really the place for this, so apologies in advance I am looking for a valid (ie legal) copy of mapbasic 3 or mapbasic 4/4.5. I'm not too bothered about manuals, but the software must be uk english (not sure if thats an issue really..but I know I cant read dutch!) and have a valid licence (remember..you may need your licence if youve been 'upgrading')...oh..and cheap would be nice..but two out of three will do! Regards r
MI MapBasic : use of custom functions as expression in a Select
I have some problems with the use of custom functions in the selected expressions of a select. For instance : Table XYZ contains the Fields SPAN as Float and OTHER as Float Declare Function my_func (ByVal X as Float) as Float Function my_func (ByVal X as Float) as Float If X 15 Then my_func = X + 15 Else my_func = 0. End If End Function Select * From XYZ Where my_func(SPAN) 40 === works Update XYZ Set OTHER = my_func(SPAN)=== works Select SPAN, my_func(SPAN) === works not, gives empty field in col2 This last seems in contradiction with MapBasic 5.0 on-line help for "Function ...End Function" under sub-chapter "Availability of Custom Functions" 1st paragraph Who can help me ? Thank you, eng. Gilles Labeeuw Ministère Fédéral des Federaal Ministerie Communications et Infrastructure van Verkeer en Infrastructuur Direction Routes: Directie Wegen: normes et banques de données normen en databanken Residence Palace Rue de la Loi 155 Residence Palace Wetstraat 155 B 1040 BruxellesB 1040 Brussel Tel. +31 (2) 287.31.63 Fax. +31 (2) 287.31.80 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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 MapBasic - Version 4.0.2
Hi All, I am hoping someone can help me (desperately). I am after a copy of MapBasic V4.0.2, as we have a number of Runtime programmes still running off this, and I have changes to be made which I am unable to compile in my current version of MapBasic(5.5), and our old disks for V4.0.2 have disappeared, along with all traces of the programme. Can someone point me in a direction of where I could locate a copy, or could someone donate an old copy to me? Please help. Thanks, Anitra Robertson GIS Analyst Tattersall's Melbourne, Vic, Australia -- 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 MapBasic project estimation and planning (A long message)
-Original Message- From: Bill Thoen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 5:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MI MapBasic project estimation and planning "I have found that most small mapbasic projects are fairly easy to plan and estimate, but that the larger ones are sometimes a *lot* more difficult." = Oh boy. I've spent the last 25 or so years of my career trying to figure this out. Basically, I'm a software developer that's been doing GIS part time for the past five years... First of all, the soap-box: Software Engineering is a discipline unto itself. There is a large body of work and entire degree programs devoted to it. While it is usual for small projects to be done successfully by anyone, the difficulty of projects explodes in a non-linear way with size, as Bill observed. I strongly suggest that anyone tackling a moderate to large size project (more than 10-20 pages of code, 5 to 10 screens) engage the advice of someone who is familiar with this kind of work. You'll be happier, and so will your users / client. I know this sounds like an argument for job crafts in some Union, but... "trust me". Follow this link for a wonderful summary of "Software's Ten Essentials" "Virtually every backpacker, rock climber, and recreational hiker in the Pacific Northwest is familiar with the Seattle Mountaineers' list of "Ten Essentials": extra clothing, extra food, sunglasses, knife, firestarter, first aid kit, waterproof matches, flashlight, map, and compass. The Ten Essentials are the end-product of years of hard-won experience. They are intended to help mountaineers avoid getting into trouble in the first place, and, if that doesn't work, to minimize the damage. No experienced mountaineer would go into the mountains without the Ten Essentials. Experienced software developers have also accumulated years of hard-won experience. Our software adventures often contain more uncharted paths and dangerous territory than a simple hike in the woods does, and so I propose a list of Ten Essentials for software projects. " http://www.construx.com/stevemcc/bp08.htm Having said that, here are a few of my favorite books on the topic: "Exploring Requirements, quality before design" -- Donald C. Gause Gerald M. Weinberg Dorset House, NY 1989 "Quality Software Management" (there are four volumes) -- Gerald M. Wienberg Dorset House 1992 and following "Software Project Survival Guide" -- Steve McConnell, Microsoft Press "Rapid Development" -- Steve McConnell, Microsoft Press The McConnell books cover much of the same territory, but Rapid Development is 800 pages and the survival guide is 300. For a great bibliography, see Ed Yourdon's Web Page http://www.yourdon.com/ For some other great software engineering advice, you might consult Steve McConnell's site: Software Project Survival Guide Web Site http://www.construx.com/survivalguide Or the home page, which leads to many great things including another book list: Steve McConnell's Home Page http://www.construx.com/stevemcc Or, maybe Capers Jones site: Software Productivity Research (Capers Jones) http://www.spr.com/index.htm But wait, there's more! (Yet another great bibliography) http://www.holub.com/goodies/books.html (Also look at the rest of the site) -- 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 MapBasic project estimation and planning
I have found that most small mapbasic projects are fairly easy to plan and estimate, but that the larger ones are sometimes a *lot* more difficult. I'm not sure how much of this is due to the lack of software management tools available for mapbasic, and how much of this is just the usual problems endemic in software planning, but I need to find some better techniques or tools. Sometimes I find that the first hurdle is finding out what the client really wants. The problem is that they often don't know what's possible, or how to describe what they only vaguely have in mind. When that happens, your estimate and schedule is already in danger. Other times I under-estimate the true complexity of the user interface, and a simple dialog box gets up off the slab and turns into a lurching, moaning, multi-page monster. For example, user-defined picklists can be a danger signal; they're not a trivial edit control. Dialogs that link data from more than one table also can get complicated, too. How do you estimate the depth of these pitfalls (short of diving in headfirst and counting the seconds until impact)? So does anyone have any tips, procedures, checklists, notation techniques, reference sources, or whatever that they have found to make the software planning, estimation and tracking tasks a little easier? If you have any hints that you know work well, I'd love to hear from you. I'll summarize, but if you want anonymity, I'll respect that too. I'm sort of fed up with winging it (even though most people tell me that's basically what they do too.) TIA, - Bill Thoen -- 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 MapBasic syntax
Dear All, Is there a free available syntax list for MapBasic Georges Sen-Gupta Senior Statistics and Information Officer Crime Reduction Unit x62469 -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SV: MI MapBasic syntax
Yes, it's called "Mapbasic Reference Guide" and comes with your purchased MapBasic... Peter Ketting Miljø- og Energiministeriet 33 92 76 67 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: SenGupta,Georges [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sendt: 25. maj 2000 11:33 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: MI MapBasic syntax Dear All, Is there a free available syntax list for MapBasic Georges Sen-Gupta Senior Statistics and Information Officer Crime Reduction Unit x62469 -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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 MapBasic syntax
MapBasic discussion happens right here. You also get MapInfo and other product topics, info on data, rants and flames, pleas for mercy, interesting irrelevant tidbits on geography, and once in a while the odd virus. All that in one list. Amazing value, don't you think? But seriously, there are separate lists for MapX, MapXtreme, and MapInfo TAB file anatomy, but I don't know if anyone has set up one for MapBasic alone. Until someone gets one started over on egroups.com or somewhere else, feel free to post on MapBasic topics right here on MapInfo-L. Put "MB" in the subject so people will know the message is about MapBasic, and I expect you'll get a pretty good response if you don't ask too many questions in a single message. - Bill Thoen "SenGupta,Georges" wrote: Dear All, Is there a free available syntax list for MapBasic Georges Sen-Gupta Senior Statistics and Information Officer Crime Reduction Unit x62469 -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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 MapBasic version of Document.aml
Hello Everyone, I know that government/military agencies (and their contractors) use Document.aml (an ArcInfo AML script) to produce FGDC-compliant metadata and to automate the metadata development process. It would be nice if I could find an existing MapBasic equivalent of this AML script, but I'm also looking for any and all information relating to the kind of output it produces, in case I end up developing a MapBasic version. Thanks very much, Julie Kanzler GIS Specialist Wyle Laboratories Arlington, VA (703) 415-4550 ext.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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 MAPBASIC: Putting inside strings, eg string = Press Push
Use the Run Command function in MapBasic. You can write multiple " to signify a ". E.g. to place a SHADE WINDOW command in a MapBasic Program try szCommand = "Shade window "+FrontWindow()+" 1 with "+ColumnInfo(MYTABLE, "col1", COL_INFO_NAME)+" ignore """" values """+szMyValue+""" Brush (2,16711680,16777215) Pen (1,2,0) default Brush (2,65280,16777215) Pen (1,2,0)" Run Command szCommand Will produce the following line Shade Window 12345678 1 with COLUMN1NAME ignore "" values "MYVAL" Brush (2,16711680,16777215) Pen (1,2,0) default Brush (2,65280,16777215) Pen (1,2,0) Obviously some artistic license has been used with the names, but you get the gist? Hope this helps, Mark Crompton -Original Message- From: Ian Allan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 2:12 AM To: Frontier Mapping Pty Ltd Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MI MAPBASIC: Putting " inside strings, eg string = Press "Push" Hi Michelle You may need to try using Chr$(34) instead of ". Good Luck Ian Allan Frontier Mapping Pty Ltd wrote: Hi, I have a program that only exports files to NonEarth (it's a bug in their software) I'm trying to write a MB app that will read in their MIF file, replace with an appropriate projection and then import into Mapinfo. However the string that defines the projection has "m" within it, ie the inverted comma's need to be part of the string. I've tried ""m"" but that doesn't work. I KNOW theirs a way of doing this, but how? (the rest works fine!) Help appreciated, Thanks, Michelle, Melbourne, Australia mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MI MAPBASIC: Putting inside strings, eg string = Press Push
Hi, I have a program that only exports files to NonEarth (it's a bug in their software) I'm trying to write a MB app that will read in their MIF file, replace with an appropriate projection and then import into Mapinfo. However the string that defines the projection has "m" within it, ie the inverted comma's need to be part of the string. I've tried ""m"" but that doesn't work. I KNOW theirs a way of doing this, but how? (the rest works fine!) Help appreciated, Thanks, Michelle, Melbourne, Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MI MAPBASIC: Putting inside strings, eg string = Press Push
Hi Michelle You may need to try using Chr$(34) instead of ". Good Luck Ian Allan Frontier Mapping Pty Ltd wrote: Hi,I have a program that only exports files to NonEarth (it's a bug in their software) I'm trying to write a MB app that will read in their MIF file, replace with an appropriate projection and then import into Mapinfo. However the string that defines the projection has "m" within it, ie the inverted comma's need to be part of the string. I've tried ""m"" but that doesn't work. I KNOW theirs a way of doing this, but how? (the rest works fine!)Help appreciated,Thanks, Michelle, Melbourne, Australia[EMAIL PROTECTED] begin:vcard n:Allan;Ian tel;fax:+61+3 9773-1232 tel;work:+61+3 9773-1232 x-mozilla-html:FALSE org:Geocode mapping and analysis pl. adr:;;PO Box 2072 ;Edithvale;Victoria;3196;Australia version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Director end:vcard
MI MapBasic and SQL???
I'm trying this in mapbasic: dim T as string T = "links_table" select * from T where T.data = 1 Which fails with an error message: unrecognized command. It seams to be choking on the fact that T.date is really "string"."column" and not really "table name"."column" Fortunately for me in this case i can achieve what i want in other means, but it seams to me to be a horrible limitation. I tried: select * from T as _table1 where _table1.data = 1 but that doesnt work either. Is mapinfo's sql braindead or what!? Know of any other ways to put table names contained in strings into queries? -- 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 MapBasic and SQL???
Hi Tony, It's not an SQL issue, it's a syntax issue. And your syntax is wrong. Use this construct instead: dim T1 as string, T2 as alias T1 = "links_table" T2 = T1 + ".data" select * from T1 where T2 = 1 To use indirect adressing always use an alias variable. Regards Lars Nielsen ** Lars Nielsen[EMAIL PROTECTED] Development Manager, MapXtreme iGIS Specialist Kampsax / MapInfo GIS, Odensehttp://www.mapinfo.dk Authorized MapInfo Partner Distributor in Denmark Address: Rugaardsvej 55, DK-5000 Odense C Telephone: +45 6313-5000 Facsimile +45 6313-5090 -- GIS-hotel.dk http://www.gis-hotel.dk -- MapInfo Internet-GIS i Danmark http://gis.mapinfo.dk ** "Tony Kelava" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 26-04-2000 09:06:54 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: MI MapBasic and SQL??? I'm trying this in mapbasic: dim T as string T = "links_table" select * from T where T.data = 1 Which fails with an error message: unrecognized command. It seams to be choking on the fact that T.date is really "string"."column" and not really "table name"."column" Fortunately for me in this case i can achieve what i want in other means, but it seams to me to be a horrible limitation. I tried: select * from T as _table1 where _table1.data = 1 but that doesnt work either. Is mapinfo's sql braindead or what!? Know of any other ways to put table names contained in strings into queries? -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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; mapbasic problem
I am baffled by some MapBasic code that I want to use to do some spatial smoothing. Briefly, I want to consecutively buffer each polygon in a table, and use the buffers to select neighbouring polygons--some of these may be used to smooth values associated with the central polygon that was used to make the buffer (I have called this central polygon the "target"). To decide which subset of the neighbouring polygons will be involved in the smoothing work, I need to be able to compare their columns to those associated with the central polygon. In the following (very abbreviated) code I create the object "oTarget" and the single-record table "rsTarget" for each record in the table. The procedure "getNeighbours" buffers oTarget to select nearby records into a multi-record table called "neighbourhood". The bizarre thing is that when I cycle through rsTarget and assign the single value in each column to targetSd (a float), I appear to acquire values that aren't even in rsTarget--they seem to be coming from the first and last records in the "neighbourhood" table--right column, wrong record(s). This makes no sense to me, but I think I have verified this by printing out values of targetSd for the first record (r=1) halting the program, and then displaying neighbourhood and rsTarget in a browser. (note remmed out code in block letters) I hope I have made sense, and will be very grateful if someone can explain to me what is going on, and how I might correct things. Thanks! ++ for r=1 to TableInfo(inputFile, Tab_Info_Nrows) Fetch Rec r From inputFile oTarget=inputFile.obj select * from inputFile where rowID=rowCount into rsTarget 'single record... 'getNeighbours creates table neighbours... Call getNeighbours (oTarget, rowCount, bufferNodes, bufferSize, bufferUnits) neighbourhoodSize=TableInfo(neighbourhood, Tab_Info_Nrows) for c = 1 to numberColumns '!!the next line assigns values to targetSd that are not in rsTarget!! targetSd=rsTarget.col(c+numberColumns+1) 'PRINT TARGETSD Call smoothCalc (various parameters, including targetSd) next 'c 'STOP next 'r ++ Ian Robertson Dept. of Anthropology Arizona State University Tempe, AZ, 85287-2402 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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 MapBasic PointInPolygon predicate function
Hi David, Concerning the problem with checking whether a point is within a region: You can use the geographical operators without SQL. That is you might ask if one object is within/intersects/contains another: *** ** Dim oPoint, oRegion As Object oPoint = CreatePoint(..) Create Region Into Variable oRegion '**Now check whether the region contains the point: If oRegion contains oPoint Then '**point is within region Else '**Point is NOT within region End If *** ** And in this way you are able of checking a lot of thing on your objects without having to save them to a table first and then use SQL. And I do agree with you there seems to be a bug somewhere in MapBasic concerning the Error handling. I have also created a lot of object creating programs - and of course as a good programmer - added error handling to these function, because a lot of things might not go the way they were expected to do. Often my problem is that I erase one object with another. Somtimes the result is a not existing object and when I try to nsert this object into a table an error occures that is not handled proberly by the error handling in my program. Best regards, Peter *** * Peter Moller[EMAIL PROTECTED] GIS-Developer Direct: +45 6313 5008 Kampsax Geoplan Voice: +45 6313 5013 Rugårdsvej 55 Faximile: +45 6313 5090 DK 5000 Odense CWeb: www.mapinfo.dk MapInfo Authorized Partner *** * -- 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 MapBasic PointInPolygon predicate function
To MapBasic Developers I recently undertook a small MapBasic project that turned out to be rather more difficult than I anticipated and lead to the development of the subject function. The task seemed simple - create a 2D map of certain air traffic control regions (or sectors) from an Excel spreadsheet containing info in this format: Region Longitude Latitude Sector1 144. 12. Sector1 155. 12. Sector1 155. 7.3167 Sector1 154. 7. Sector1 149. 7. etc Sector2 141. 5. Sector2 141. 9.6167 Sector2 144.2500 9.5000 etc Problem 1 -- My first effort simply used the MapBasic 5.5 statements dim objSector as object Create Region into variable objSector 0 Alter Region objSector Node Add (fltX1, fltY1) Alter Region objSector Node Add (fltX2, fltY2) etc This code created the regions ok but had a problem. The centroid point of each region was located at the first node of its boundary polygon, making autolabelling ineffective, and -worse- making manual repositioning of the centroids with the MapInfo Pro node editing tool difficult. Problem 2 MapBasic 5.5 contains the statement Alter Object objSector Geography OBJ+AF8-GEO+AF8-CENTROID, objPoint although it does not appear to be documented in the on-line Help. My second attempt was to compute the MBR of each sector (xmin,ymin,xmax,ymax) and then try to retrospectively set the centroid property using the statements dim objPoint as object create point into variable objPoint((xmin+-xmax)/2,(ymin+-ymax)/2) OnError goto err1 Alter Object objRegion Geography OBJ+AF8-GEO+AF8-CENTROID, objPoint err1: The intent of this code was to set the centroid to mid-point of the region's MBR if that point lies within, or on the border of the region, otherwise (if the region has a concavity or hole in it) leave the centroid at its default position on node 1. Unfortunately the implementation of Alter Object Geography OBJ+AF8-GEO+AF8-CENTROID seems to be faulty in that it bypasses MapBasic's error trapping mechanism, so that, despite the OnError statement, the program simply aborted whenever it encountered a problem region. Problem 3 -- I could find no standard Mapbasic predicate function PointInPolygon that could be used to detect the situation that causes Alter Object Geography OBJ+AF8-GEO+AF8-CENTROID to crash and therefore avoid it. Certainly one could use the SQL +ACI-within+ACI- operator to make this test, but the code would be clumsy and inefficient, as you'd have to create and populate two temporary MapInfo tables, with all the file I/O overhead involved, in order to implement the test. Solution --- The ultimate solution was to implement a custom PointInPolygon function in MapBasic. I used the +ACI-ray tracing+ACI- algorithm in +ACI-Computational Geometry in C+ACI- Joseph O'Rourke Cambridge University Press 1993 Page 233 ff If anybody's interested in the source code for PointInPolygon (which works for single polygon regions without bow-tie anomalies or donut holes) then just ask. Regards David M Haycraft Information Analysis Associates Pty Ltd ACN 085 516 105 1 Cumming Place, Wanniassa, 2903 Aust Capital Territory, Australia Phone/Fax: 61 +- 2 +- 6231 8104 Mobile: 0412 001 134 Email: d.haycraft+AEA-acslink.aone.net.au Web : www.acslink.aone.net.au/actaa/iaa.htm A MapInfo Technology Partner -- 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 MapBasic PointInPolygon predicate function
the simplest answer to your problem is to convert the regions to polylines, and then back to regions - two lines of code and Mapinfo puts the centroid in the middle where it should be for you. Thanks for the info on the new function, I didn't know it existed and it is somehting that I was requesting a couple of years ago (and why I found the simplest way of avoiding the issue) R -Original Message- From: owner-mapinfo-l+AEA-lists.csn.net +AFs-mailto:owner-mapinfo-l+AEA-lists.csn.net+AF0-On Behalf Of David M Haycraft Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 10:59 AM To: mapinfo-l+AEA-csn.net Cc: ozsupport+AEA-mapinfo.com Subject: MI MapBasic PointInPolygon predicate function To MapBasic Developers I recently undertook a small MapBasic project that turned out to be rather more difficult than I anticipated and lead to the development of the subject function. The task seemed simple - create a 2D map of certain air traffic control regions (or sectors) from an Excel spreadsheet containing info in this format: Region Longitude Latitude Sector1 144. 12. Sector1 155. 12. Sector1 155. 7.3167 Sector1 154. 7. Sector1 149. 7. etc Sector2 141. 5. Sector2 141. 9.6167 Sector2 144.2500 9.5000 etc Problem 1 -- My first effort simply used the MapBasic 5.5 statements dim objSector as object Create Region into variable objSector 0 Alter Region objSector Node Add (fltX1, fltY1) Alter Region objSector Node Add (fltX2, fltY2) etc This code created the regions ok but had a problem. The centroid point of each region was located at the first node of its boundary polygon, making autolabelling ineffective, and -worse- making manual repositioning of the centroids with the MapInfo Pro node editing tool difficult. Problem 2 MapBasic 5.5 contains the statement Alter Object objSector Geography OBJ+AF8-GEO+AF8-CENTROID, objPoint although it does not appear to be documented in the on-line Help. My second attempt was to compute the MBR of each sector (xmin,ymin,xmax,ymax) and then try to retrospectively set the centroid property using the statements dim objPoint as object create point into variable objPoint((xmin+-xmax)/2,(ymin+-ymax)/2) OnError goto err1 Alter Object objRegion Geography OBJ+AF8-GEO+AF8-CENTROID, objPoint err1: The intent of this code was to set the centroid to mid-point of the region's MBR if that point lies within, or on the border of the region, otherwise (if the region has a concavity or hole in it) leave the centroid at its default position on node 1. Unfortunately the implementation of Alter Object Geography OBJ+AF8-GEO+AF8-CENTROID seems to be faulty in that it bypasses MapBasic's error trapping mechanism, so that, despite the OnError statement, the program simply aborted whenever it encountered a problem region. Problem 3 -- I could find no standard Mapbasic predicate function PointInPolygon that could be used to detect the situation that causes Alter Object Geography OBJ+AF8-GEO+AF8-CENTROID to crash and therefore avoid it. Certainly one could use the SQL +ACI-within+ACI- operator to make this test, but the code would be clumsy and inefficient, as you'd have to create and populate two temporary MapInfo tables, with all the file I/O overhead involved, in order to implement the test. Solution --- The ultimate solution was to implement a custom PointInPolygon function in MapBasic. I used the +ACI-ray tracing+ACI- algorithm in +ACI-Computational Geometry in C+ACI- Joseph O'Rourke Cambridge University Press 1993 Page 233 ff If anybody's interested in the source code for PointInPolygon (which works for single polygon regions without bow-tie anomalies or donut holes) then just ask. Regards David M Haycraft Information Analysis Associates Pty Ltd ACN 085 516 105 1 Cumming Place, Wanniassa, 2903 Aust Capital Territory, Australia Phone/Fax: 61 +- 2 +- 6231 8104 Mobile: 0412 001 134 Email: d.haycraft+AEA-acslink.aone.net.au Web : www.acslink.aone.net.au/actaa/iaa.htm A MapInfo Technology Partner -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to majordomo+AEA-csn.net and put +ACI-unsubscribe MAPINFO-L+ACI- in the message body, or contact bthoen+AEA-csn.net -- 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 MapBasic and Legend Windows
Dear All, I've noticed that if thematic layers are turned on / off with a Mapbasic app, the changes are not automatically passed to the legend / theme legend window. Presumably, the app needs to include a Set Legend statement or Set Cartographic Legend statement to update the legend? Also, is it possible to create and manipulate a legend or theme legend window with MapBasic that will show the shading for thematic layers even if they are turned off? Thanks in advance, Keith Keith Campbell GIS Consultant W S Atkins Consultants Ltd UK -- 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 mapbasic dialogs and fonts
Hi Is it possible to change the font in a mapbasic created dialog? I have some buttons in a dialog which I would like to put a symbol on rather than using text. What I want to do would lookvery similar to the symbol picker control available in mapbasic. I have tried trying the font using set style font ... and ten tested with currentfont() and my font gets set ok but it always defaults back to a basic arial font. any help would be appreciated. thanks Larry Nolan
Re: MI MapBasic API Calls - Getting current IP address
Paul, G'Day, Does anybody know how to find out the IP address of a PC from within MapBasic? I assume that I will have to use API calls, however I can't find any documentation on this. see http://www.mvps.org/vbnet/code/network/ipaddress.htm This is a VB example that can easily be translated into MapBasic. Regards, Dave Dave Langley Mapping Applications Consultant Dataview Solutions Ltd London UK Telephone: +44 (0)1635 581355 Mobile:+44 (0)973 797769 Business email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dataview Home Page: www.dataview-solutions.co.uk _ WARNING - THIS E-MAIL TRANSMISSION IS CONFIDENTIAL. This e-mail transmission (including any accompanying attachments) contains confidential information which is intended for the named addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this e-mail is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error please contact us immediately at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you. _ -- 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 MapBasic question
Roy, Dmitry posted some time ago an awesome example of using WinAPI CreateProcess() and WaitForSingleObject() functions to do just that. I'm sure you can find it from list archive. I made this lil application to run GhostScript within MapInfo using that code and it seem to work very nice. I'll post it to Bill Thoen with the source in case you need more backup. Feel free to contact me directly, if you are in hurry. Regards, Anssi -Alkuperainen viesti- Lahettaja: Roy Chiappini [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Lahetetty: 27. helmikuuta 2000 15:25 Vastaanottaja: Mapinfo List Aihe: MI MapBasic question List: Is there a way, from WITHIN MapBasic, to run a windows program AND not return program control to the MapBasic program until the windows program has completed operation? Thanks -- Roy N. Chiappini Randa Enterprises [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.srv.net/~ziccardi/randa -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Vedr: MI MapBasic question
Hi Roy This code is from the FME-L, and it will stop mapinfo/mapbasic until your external process has completed. Peter Laulund National Survey and Cadastre, Denmark Type STARTUPINFO cb As Integer lpReserved As String lpDesktop As String lpTitle As String dwX As Integer dwY As Integer dwXSize As Integer dwYSize As Integer dwXCountChars As Integer dwYCountChars As Integer dwFillAttribute As Integer dwFlags As Integer wShowWindow As Smallint cbReserved2 As Smallint lpReserved2 As Integer hStdInput As Integer hStdOutput As Integer hStdError As Integer End Type Type PROCESS_INFORMATION hProcess As Integer hThread As Integer dwProcessID As Integer dwThreadID As Integer End Type Define NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS H20 Define INFINITE-1 Declare Sub ExecuteAndWait(ByVal cmdLine As String) Declare Function CloseHandle Lib "kernel32" (hObject As Integer) As smallint Declare Function WaitForSingleObject Lib "kernel32" (ByVal hHandle As Integer,ByVal dwMilliseconds As Integer) As Integer Declare Function CreateProcessA Lib "kernel32" (ByVal lpApplicationName As Integer, ByVal lpCommandLine As String, ByVal lpProcessAttributes As Integer, ByVal lpThreadAttributes As Integer, ByVal bInheritHandles As Integer, ByVal dwCreationFlags As Integer, ByVal lpEnvironment As Integer, ByVal lpCurrentDirectory As Integer, lpStartupInfo As STARTUPINFO, lpProcessInformation As PROCESS_INFORMATION) As Integer Sub Main dim sCmd as string sCmd = HomeDirectory$() "NotePad.exe " call ExecuteAndWait(sCmd) End sub Sub ExecuteAndWait(ByVal cmdLine As String) Dim NameOfProc As PROCESS_INFORMATION, NameStart As STARTUPINFO, X As Integer NameStart.cb = 256 Print CreateProcessA(0, cmdLine, 0, 0, 1, NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS, 0, 0, NameStart, NameOfProc) print NameOfProc.hProcess Print WaitForSingleObject(NameOfProc.hProcess, INFINITE) Print CloseHandle(NameOfProc.hProcess) End Sub Roy Chiappini [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 2000 02 27 14:25:15 Til:Mapinfo List [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: Peter Laulund/MI/KMS) Vedrørende:MI MapBasic question List: Is there a way, from WITHIN MapBasic, to run a windows program AND not return program control to the MapBasic program until the windows program has completed operation? Thanks -- Roy N. Chiappini Randa Enterprises [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.srv.net/~ziccardi/randa -- 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 MapBasic: Copy from Clipboard
Hello All, I am writing a MB program that will find a particular site based upon a selection in an Access form. When leaving Access I copy the info on to the clipboard then open MapInfo and start the program. I need to retrieve the info from the clipboard and set it as a string. Does anybody know how this can be done? I know I can output the info as a file from Access and import it into the program. The clipboard seemed like the easiest way to do it though. Thanks for any info! Leith C. Britt GIS Specialist Town of Cary Ph. (919)-469-4383 Fax (919)-319-4597 -- 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 MapBasic question
At 06:25 AM 2/27/00 -0700, Roy Chiappini wrote: List: Is there a way, from WITHIN MapBasic, to run a windows program AND not return program control to the MapBasic program until the windows program has completed operation? Sure, just make sure you app is in fact a DLL and call your main form as modal :) Hope this helps. Thanks -- Roy N. Chiappini Randa Enterprises [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.srv.net/~ziccardi/randa -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Raymond Rivest Global Geomatics Inc. Tel: (450) 668-4949, Fax: (450) 668-2822 -- 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 MapBasic question
List: Is there a way, from WITHIN MapBasic, to run a windows program AND not return program control to the MapBasic program until the windows program has completed operation? Thanks -- Roy N. Chiappini Randa Enterprises [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.srv.net/~ziccardi/randa -- 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 MapBasic and Visual Basic
Harald, It has been a while since I have done this, but you need to use DDE. You can transmit data back and forth, but I do not recall the method (and my source code is long gone). A little study of the DDE interface should point the way. The other option, which may or may not work in your situation, is to use VB as your primary interface and use OLE to interface with Mapinfo Pro (integrated mapping). You can run Mapbasic function and all kinds of neat things this way. It is more stable, more flexible and more powerful. - Brad -Original Message- From: Harald Schoelzel [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2000 8:25 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: MI MapBasic and Visual Basic I'd like to include an existing VB application into my MapBasic application - mainly because I find it somewhat cumbersome to design forms etc in MB. What would be the best way to include the VB app and enable dataexchange from VB to MB? And what would be the syntax for that, eg if I used DDE can I initiate the data request through the DDEInitiate command with Visual Basic and MyVPapp.EXE as topic/ statement. Would the VB application have to be set up as a server/ client? Could all that be done through OLE. Thanks for your efforts and please copy reply to my e-mail. Harald Schölzel Economist Civil Engineer c/o SOPAC South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission Private Mail Bag Suva, Fiji Tel: Business (679) 381 377 private (679) 386 236 Fax: (679) 370 040 Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.sopac.org.fj/wru Mirror URL: http://www.sidsnet.org/pacific/sopac/wru -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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 MapBasic and Visual Basic
I'd like to include an existing VB application into my MapBasic application - mainly because I find it somewhat cumbersome to design forms etc in MB. What would be the best way to include the VB app and enable dataexchange from VB to MB? And what would be the syntax for that, eg if I used DDE can I initiate the data request through the DDEInitiate command with Visual Basic and MyVPapp.EXE as topic/ statement. Would the VB application have to be set up as a server/ client? Could all that be done through OLE. Thanks for your efforts and please copy reply to my e-mail. Harald Schölzel Economist Civil Engineer c/o SOPAC South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission Private Mail Bag Suva, Fiji Tel: Business (679) 381 377 private (679) 386 236 Fax: (679) 370 040 Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.sopac.org.fj/wru Mirror URL: http://www.sidsnet.org/pacific/sopac/wru -- 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: MapBasic SearchPoint SearchRect commands
Hi, I am seeking assistance in the use of the SearchPoint and SearchRect commands in MapBasic please. My main problem is that I cannot guarantee correct or predictable results. I have a lines map and a points map. The lines maps represents a sewer system and the points map represents the access points at the ends of the lines. I am wanting to determine the points at the end of each line, so that I can verify flow direction. I have written the mapbasic code to successfully do this using the CreateCircle function and geographical analysis commands; however; it takes some 50+ hours to run in NT 4 on a Pentium III at 500mhz and 250mb RAM for 30,000 sewer lines. This equates to approx 1.8 billion comparisons. The problem I am having with the search commands is that they do not always yield correct results, and are unpredictable. As stated in the texts, the SearchPoint function relies on a pixel distance for determining points selection. This depends on zoom width. However, having specified the SearchRectangle coordinates, I would expect to overcome the use of pixels, but it doesn't seem to be the case. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. ___ Regards ... John van Uitregt, GIS Analyst Logan City Council, Queensland, Australia Tel. 61-7-38265138 Fax 61-7-38080014 Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.logan.qld.gov.au ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.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 MapBasic false compile
Hi, can someone tell me why this code compiles ok in MapBasic 4.1? It shouldn't, should it? Note the extra Sub parameter 'SayYes'. - Declare sub A ( Byval Data1, Byval Data2 as string, Byval SayYes as logical ) dim X1 as string Call A ( "hello", X1, 0) print X1 Sub A ( Byval Data1, Byval Data2 as string ) if SayYes then Data2 = left$( Data1,2) else Data2="No" end if End sub - - Ing. Juan Pufleau Correa Geografía y Electrónica, SA de CV Aguascalientes, Mexico - -- 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 MapBasic version
Title: MapBasic version Hello all I have compiled a program in MapBasic V5.0 but need to run it on a MAC, i.e. only has MapInfo V4.1. To run this program on the MAC I need to change the header info. in the compiled program. I noticed somewhere that there was a program to change the version header in a compiled MapBasic program but can not remember where. Can anybody help me? Thanks Greg Toomey
MI MapBasic question
Hi all MapInfoUsers ! I am looking for sourcecode to the MapBasic program Search and Replace, can anybody help ? TIA... Reijo Kiviniemi GIS-specialist RegionGIs -- 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 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 course you took or presented, was anything left out you would have wanted or were things included that weren't useful? I'd appreciate your top 3 or so best and worst features of any MapBasic course you took, since I'm working on something along these lines. I'll summarize in a week or so, so you can email me directly if you have a mind to speak your mind. Trainer's thoughts and ideas are welcome too, and I'll respect your anonymity if you wish. Thanks! - Bill Thoen -- 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 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 Earth, Inc. 109-B North Jefferson Street Huntsville, AL 35801 (256) 536-0606 http://www.solidearth.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bill Thoen Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2000 12:57 PM To: MapInfo-L Subject: 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 course you took or presented, was anything left out you would have wanted or were things included that weren't useful? I'd appreciate your top 3 or so best and worst features of any MapBasic course you took, since I'm working on something along these lines. I'll summarize in a week or so, so you can email me directly if you have a mind to speak your mind. Trainer's thoughts and ideas are welcome too, and I'll respect your anonymity if you wish. Thanks! - Bill Thoen -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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 MapBasic - problems with Dialog Remove statement
From: John Fannon@WRCPLC on 01/19/2000 04:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: MapBasic - problems with Dialog Remove statement I have a dialog that has several control buttons on it but no OKButton. Each of the buttons calls the same handler and the triggercontrol() function is used to determine which button was pressed. The problem is that I need to be able to remove the dialog once a button has been selected. I thought that the following code would work: Sub main dialog control button title "button1" id 1 Calling handler control button title "button2" id 2 Calling handler End Sub Sub handler Dialog Remove Do Case triggercontrol() Case 1 call anotherRoutine Case 2 call anotherRoutine End Case End Sub the dialog remove statement doesnt remove the dialog at all with the above code. Yet if I take out the Do Case part it works fine!!I can't quite understand this. Does anybody know if this is a bug? or is it that I'm not supposed to be using it in this way? well any help would be good... thanks John ** John Fannon GIS Group WRc Plc Frankland Rd Blagrove Swindon SN5 8YF email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 01793 865096 Fax: 01793 865001 ** -- 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 MapBasic - retrieving the ID of the editText control which user clicked in.
I have a dialog that has a number of EditText controls. I want to determine which of these the user selected last. i know that the triggerControl() function can determine the last selected control ID - but I need to determine the ID before the user dismisses the dialog (eg with ok/cancel) and before another control is selected. you can do this with other dialogs by having a handler that has the triggercontrol() function within it. But I don't think you can have a handler for an editText box?? so how do I return the last selected control ID if the user clicks within an EditText box?? I'd appreciate any suggestions thanks, John Fannon GIS Specialist WRc Plc Swindon UK email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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 Mapbasic: using code to select a node
I need to be able to select a node (IOW simulate a mouse click on a node) on a map using a Mapbasic command, via OLE in an Access application, but I can't find any such Mapbasic command. I am a newcomer to MapInfo, so perhaps there's something simple I've overlooked. Can anyone offer any help? Thanks in advance, Nicholas Couch [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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 MapBasic Utilitiy Tool
Hi It's not a problem. There is CogoLinm from Juan Pufleau [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://members.xoom.com/geosoft99/gis/util/cogolinm.zip But more usefull COGO.MBX is shareware on http://www.GreenwoodMap.com If you have MapBasic - seek in samples code of Cogoline and change it as you want. Dima Omely http://members.xoom.com/geosoft99/ decorp1 wrote: I would like to know if the Cogoline a MapBasic application utlity tool (MapInfo v4.1.2) which only have a feet and miles measurement units(English system) can also be configured to meters (Metric system) if this is so how can I do that? Or is there any MapBasic application similar to Cogoline that uses the metric system. Benjy S. Sta. Ana -- 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 MapBasic - SELECT command problems
John, MB will parse 'wherestatement' as a single 'token' or 'word' - which isn't what you want. You will probably be best off using the 'Run Command' statement something like this: Run Command "Select * From " tables " Where " wherestatement " Into Selection" 'Run Command' causes the subsequent string to be parsed into its individual tokens before being executed. Richard Burkmar ICL -Original Message- From: "fannon_j"@wrcplc.co.uk [mailto:"fannon_j"@wrcplc.co.uk] Sent: 21 December 1999 09:14 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MI MapBasic - SELECT command problems I have a mapbasic program that gets an SQL statement from the user filling in a text box. This statement is stored in a string variable and the program runs the select statement once the dialog is dismissed with OK. Eg: if commandinfo (CMD_INFO_DLG_OK) then Select * From tables Where wherestatement Into Selection end if the variable "tables" and "wherestatement" hold the user input table names and SQL where statement respectively. currently this doesn't work! The variable "tables" seems to be ok...but there is something about using a string variable for the where part of the statement which MapBasic doesn't like. Do I need to split up the wherestatement string variable into seperate string variables for the SELECT command to work? Or is it something to do with column aliases (which I hate!) ? If you have any ideas I'd be happy to here them! cheers John -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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 MapBasic : Distance point to line
Hello Véronique, May I add to Bill's reply that a truly accurate implementation of point-object distance is not very efficient to implement in MB as it involves iteration through nodes. This is the reason why many utilities will compromise accuracy by not calculating the true perpendicular 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 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bill Thoen Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 6:57 PM To: V. VESTRI Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: MI MapBasic : Distance point to line The shortest distance between a point and a line is the length of a line originating at the point and intersecting the line perpendicularly (not necessaerily the midpoint). You also have to test the line's endpoints if a perpendicular intersection cannot be drawn from the point to a line segment. - Bill Thoen "V. VESTRI" wrote: Hello, Can you tell me how to calculate the minimum distance between one point and few lines or polylines with MapBasic ? It's the last point of my developpement and i don't have idea how i can do that. My MapBasic application is simple : - it create circle, using coordinates in a table - user define the radius - it select all line or polyline in the circle - it calculate the minimum distance between the circle centroid and this line or polyline I'm sorry for this very bad english ... Thanks a lot, Véronique VESTRI Ingénieur S.I.G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ASCOPARG Surveillance de la qualité de l'air dans la région grenobloise FRANCE -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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 MAPBASIC
Hi All, Even though Fraser asked about the Spy tool, I would like to bring to everyone's attention the book mentioned below: WHITENER AND RYKER (authors) - MAPBASIC DEVELOPER'S GUIDE Anyone wishing to get into MapBasic programming - BUY THIS BOOK. It is without doubt the most useful resource I have ever seen or used for MapBasic. Just my $.02 Mark -Original Message- From: Fraser Gardiner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 11:08 AM To: MapInfo-L Subject: MI Spy tool I am working my way through Whitener and Ryker's MapBasic Developer's Guide. They refer to a Visual C++ utility called Spy that enables a developer to get information on dialog controls by clicking on them. Can Spy be used independently of VC++, and if so, is there someone who can send me a copy of this or a similar utility? Many thanks, Fraser * Fraser Gardiner Tel: 020 8451 9603 Mob: 07939 081357 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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 MapBasic : Distance point to line
Véronique, Il existe un programme MapBasic gratuit qui te permet d'effectuer ce calcul entre deux tables. Il est disponible en anglais sur le site de la MapInfo-L à http://www.directionsmag.com/tools/ (Regarde dans le Top 10) Si tu le souhaites, je peux te le faire parvenir en français. Josée Can you tell me how to calculate the minimum distance between one point and few lines or polylines with MapBasic ? It's the last point of my developpement and i don't have idea how i can do that. My MapBasic application is simple : - it create circle, using coordinates in a table - user define the radius - it select all line or polyline in the circle - it calculate the minimum distance between the circle centroid and this line or polyline I'm sorry for this very bad english ... Thanks a lot, Véronique VESTRI Ingénieur S.I.G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ASCOPARG Surveillance de la qualité de l'air dans la région grenobloise FRANCE -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ || // Josee Bouchard || // [EMAIL PROTECTED] || // #ICQ 8348615 || \\ || \\Le Groupe KOREM inc. || \\ http://www.korem.com 680, Charest Est, Quebec (QC) CANADA, G1K 3J4 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ -- 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 MapBasic utilities...
Hello, I was curious if anyone might know where I could find utilities written in MapBasic that would do the following: 1. Convert TigerMap data to the format required by MapInfo. 2. A MapBasic program invokable from the command line that would accept a bounding box and would generate a MapInfo map internally, then save it to a file as a gif or jpeg. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Alice. -- 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 Mapbasic: Reproject Statement
Hi All, I just tried to use the 'reproject' mapbasic statement both from the mapbasic window and within mapbasic code. While MapInfo didn't kick up a fuss it totally ignored the statement ie it had no effect at all. Is it just me or doesn't this actually work? I am running MI5.0 (and MB5.0) TIA Martin === Martin Roundill GIS Manager Waitakere City Council Private Bag 93109 Henderson Waitakere City New Zealand Ph +64 9 836 8000 ext 8344 Fax +64 9 836 8001 email [EMAIL PROTECTED] === -- 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 MapBasic Questions from a beginner
Hello all And when I say beginner I mean it! be very warned. what I need to do is the following (mapbasic 4.1 and mi 4.5) I have just done an update column on a table and then a query into a table called selection. I then want to open a browser window for selection but only if there have been any results from the query (obviously I'll get an error message if I try to browse from the selection and the query has not returned any results) cheers Jon -- 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 Mapbasic utility
Hi William, I have written an application that takes a text, excel or access files with limited cell site information and transforms it into MapInfo. The resulting map will show sectors with correct beamwidth and orientation, which the user can then label however desired. A copy of this utility has been sent to Sprint PCS in Northern California. The engineer it was sent to is an LCC employee - Shirjeel Mirza. If you contact him he should be able to help. If not send me an email and I will send you a copy. If you have other tables with additional information - Freq, PN, Colour Code, Location Area, BSC (or whatever is relevant for your system) these can be thematically added later providing you have a single reference column the same across the tables (eg Site ID). E.g. Here we have daily switch data downloaded from the web. MapInfo provides a dialog with a list of the columns. The user picks a column, and then each sector (pie segment) is colour coded depending on which view was selected. This has also been done for Frequency ReUse (PN codes for CDMA), where the user selects a sector and the reuses are shown. Another tool we have is neighbour lists - select a sector and display neighbours. This has also been done for traffic data... If you have specific questions please do not hesitate to ask. Hope this helps Mark Crompton Principal Engineer LCC International Inc -Original Message- From: Young, Bill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 29, 1999 9:27 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: MI Mapbasic utility I am hoping that someone might have a mapbasic utility that they would be willing to share. What I am looking for is a mapbasic utility for wireless that would label a cell site with the correct antenna orientation, that would cross reference a site database and change the site symbol to either a line reference, or pie wedge, as well as orientating it with the referenced azimuth, beamwidth (in the case of a pie wedge), channel assignment, and site name/number. Any assistance anyone could provide would be greatly appreciated. Sincerely, William G. Young Sprint PCS RF Engineering, Nashville, TN E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: (615) 345-7911 Fax: (615) 248-4828 -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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 MapBasic Programmers - FYI 5.x Bug
Cindy, Thanks for the prompt and effective workaround. Richard Burkmar. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 November 1999 19:56 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MI MapBasic Programmers - FYI 5.x Bug Regarding your posting below, here is a workaround. Include "Menu.def" Declare Sub Main Sub Main Run Command "Run Menu Command " + Str$(M_FILE_SAVE_WORKSPACE) End Sub Cindy MapInfo Technical Support Dear MB developers, If you have any MapBasic applications which use the line 'Run Menu Command M_FILE_SAVE_WORKSPACE', they may fail to work properly under some circumstances (see below) with MapInfo 5.x. Richard Burkmar. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 09 November 1999 18:03 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MapBasic 5.x Bug This is a bug in MapInfo 5.5 as well. I will file it as a bug. Unfortunately, I don't have a workaround for this. Cindy MapInfo Technical Support * To: TechSupport/MapInfo Corp@MapInfo Corp cc: Subject: MapBasic 5.x Bug Tech-support, When I compile and run the following MapBasic 5.0 program, I get an error if I have previously run an SQL query and I have the 'save queries in workspaces' option set (i.e. if the workspace tries to save the query). Running 'save workspace' directly from the MapInfo menu is OK as is running the MBX if I have not first run an SQL query or running the MBX with the 'save queries in workspaces' option not set. Include "Menu.def" Declare Sub Main Sub Main Run Menu Command M_FILE_SAVE_WORKSPACE End Sub This is causing us problems because we have a MapBasic App (originally written at version 4.x) which intercepts a user's request to save a workspace from the MapInfo file menu and runs some code to clear up application-specific tables before saving the workspace with a line like that shown above. Now a customer has moved to version 5.x of MapInfo, and cannot save workspaces with queries (which they need to do) unless they first shut down the application. Do you have any workarounds or bug fixes for this problem? Richard Burkmar -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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 MapBasic Programmers - FYI 5.x Bug
Regarding your posting below, here is a workaround. Include "Menu.def" Declare Sub Main Sub Main Run Command "Run Menu Command " + Str$(M_FILE_SAVE_WORKSPACE) End Sub Cindy MapInfo Technical Support Dear MB developers, If you have any MapBasic applications which use the line 'Run Menu Command M_FILE_SAVE_WORKSPACE', they may fail to work properly under some circumstances (see below) with MapInfo 5.x. Richard Burkmar. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 09 November 1999 18:03 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MapBasic 5.x Bug This is a bug in MapInfo 5.5 as well. I will file it as a bug. Unfortunately, I don't have a workaround for this. Cindy MapInfo Technical Support * To: TechSupport/MapInfo Corp@MapInfo Corp cc: Subject: MapBasic 5.x Bug Tech-support, When I compile and run the following MapBasic 5.0 program, I get an error if I have previously run an SQL query and I have the 'save queries in workspaces' option set (i.e. if the workspace tries to save the query). Running 'save workspace' directly from the MapInfo menu is OK as is running the MBX if I have not first run an SQL query or running the MBX with the 'save queries in workspaces' option not set. Include "Menu.def" Declare Sub Main Sub Main Run Menu Command M_FILE_SAVE_WORKSPACE End Sub This is causing us problems because we have a MapBasic App (originally written at version 4.x) which intercepts a user's request to save a workspace from the MapInfo file menu and runs some code to clear up application-specific tables before saving the workspace with a line like that shown above. Now a customer has moved to version 5.x of MapInfo, and cannot save workspaces with queries (which they need to do) unless they first shut down the application. Do you have any workarounds or bug fixes for this problem? Richard Burkmar -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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 MapBasic
Hi All I am thinking of writing an enhanced editor for MapBasic. With such functions as compile entire project form the MBP file. Before I start I am interested in a some info from the users. 1. How many use and external text editor such as UltraEdit for coding? And if so which one? 2. What features would people be interested in seeing in an editor. A question for those that know. How long will MapBasic be around and is it worth my effort to do this or are MapInfo going to improve there editor. Either reply to the list to my personal e-mail Thanks Anton de Gruchy - MapIT - GIS Program development 35 Settlers Drive Edgemead, 7441 Cape Town, South Africa Ph: 27 021 5580256 Fax: 27 021 5590147 Cell: 082 855 9747 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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 MapBasic 5.x Bug - workarounds anyone?
Dear MapBasic Programmers, When I compile and run the following MapBasic 5.0 program, I get an error if I have previously run an SQL query (i.e. if the workspace tries to save the query). Running 'save workspace' directly from the MapInfo menu is OK as is running the MBX if I have not first run an SQL query. Include "Menu.def" Declare Sub Main Sub Main Run Menu Command M_FILE_SAVE_WORKSPACE End Sub Although at first sight it might seem trivial, it is causing me problems because I have a MapBasic App (originally written at version 4.x) which intercepts a user's request to save a workspace from the MapInfo file menu and runs some code to clear up application-specific temporary tables before saving the workspace with a line like that shown above. Now a customer has moved to version 5.x of MapInfo, and cannot save workspaces with queries (which they need to do) unless they first shut down the application (which is very inconvenient). Does anyone have any ideas for working round this problem? Thanks in advance, Richard Burkmar. -- 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 MapBasic App PLEASE DO NOT SEND US E-mail THANK YOU
- Original Message - From: Jon Spinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Mapinfo User List' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 7:24 PM Subject: MI MapBasic App Hello all: Does anyone know of a MapBasic utility, app, or batch that will allow me to automatically create bmp images from workspaces? I have about 1000 images to create, and a manual "save window as" effort is far to intensive. Thanks, Jon Spinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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 mapbasic input variables
Hello Scott, I would like to have one sub routine such as save copy C:\city.tab as E:\temp\city.tab in which the input variable city would represent the variable that the user has selected You can use your CITY variable in an expression in table processing commands. However, there is no "save copy" type command in MI. The easiest thing to so is to open the selected table and save it again. open table "c:\"+CITY as TO_COPY_SAVE commit table TO_COPY_SAVE as "e:\"+CITY With open and commit, you do not need to put ".tab" extensions in the expression 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 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 mapbasic input variables
Scott, It sounds like you want to construct strings that can be executed as MapBasic commands. The spirit of this idea is to do something like the following: Dim Cmd as string Dim Path as string Dim City as string '-- to create a new table named after the value of City Cmd = "Create Table " + City + " (ID Char(32)) File " Cmd = Cmd + chr$(34) + Path + Chr$(34) + " Type Native" Run Command Cmd Note: you may want to do the following: 1) Keep your mapbasic window open in MI Pro as you work so you can become more familiar with MapBasic syntax (many menu choices result in the commands being printed to the window). 2) read up on MapBasic functions such as CommandInfo, FileSaveAsDlg, etc that can help you gain info on choices the user makes ( or should make). For example, CommandInfo(CMD_INFO_MENUITEM) returns an integer telling you the ID of the menu item the user selected; this should help you give the variable 'city' a meaningful value. 3) Become familiar with the 'Dialog' keyword if you're planning to build dialogs using MapBasic. - Tom ** Tom A. White, GIS Programmer / Analyst Schlosser Geographic Systems, Inc. http://www.sgsi.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Two Union Sq. 601 Union St. Seattle, WA 98101 USA (206) 224 - 0800 fax: (206) 467 - 0458 -Original Message- From: Snashall, Scott [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 18, 1999 4:36 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject:MI mapbasic input variables Hello all, I am relatively new to mapbasic and programming in general. In the program I am working on I have created a pulldown menu which list various cities ie Toronto Chicago Vancouver Los Angeles etc once the user has selected the city he wants and clicked the okay button the city would be placed into a input variable ie CITY I would like to have one sub routine such as save copy C:\city.tab as E:\temp\city.tab in which the input variable city would represent the variable that the user has selected rather than doing this IF CITY = toronto then save copy C:\Toronto.tab as E:temp\toronto.tab else if city = Chicago then save copy C:\Toronto.tab as E:temp\Chicago.tab I am not to sure if this can be done in Mapinfo or if there is a better way of doing this. If there is any short step solutions, HELP would be much appreciated thanks -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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 mapbasic input variables
Hi Scott, You may try Do Case statements as follows: Dim city, msg As String Do Case city Case toronto save copy C:\Toronto.tab as E:temp\toronto.tab Case Chicago save copy C:\Toronto.tab as E:temp\Chicago.tab Case xyz save copy C:\xyz.tab as E:temp\xyz.tab Case Else msg = "city is not in the database?" End Case Regards, Khairul Alam ECOWISE Environmental, Canberra, Australia ph: 6270 7655 IF CITY = toronto then else if city = then At 05:35 pm 18/10/1999 -0600, you wrote: Hello all, I am relatively new to mapbasic and programming in general. In the program I am working on I have created a pulldown menu which list various cities ie Toronto Chicago Vancouver Los Angeles etc once the user has selected the city he wants and clicked the okay button the city would be placed into a input variable ie CITY I would like to have one sub routine such as save copy C:\city.tab as E:\temp\city.tab in which the input variable city would represent the variable that the user has selected rather than doing this IF CITY = toronto then save copy C:\Toronto.tab as E:temp\toronto.tab else if city = Chicago then save copy C:\Toronto.tab as E:temp\Chicago.tab I am not to sure if this can be done in Mapinfo or if there is a better way of doing this. If there is any short step solutions, HELP would be much appreciated thanks -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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 MapBasic question
Dear all, I am using the "Save Window" function in MapBasic (same as MapInfo's "Save Window As...") with the Copyright option. With all filetypes (bmp, psd, tif, jpeg) the copyright line shows fine, however, if you create a WMF file the copyright line gets chopped. Does anyone nows a fix for this? Regards. Federico -- 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 MapBasic Shade statement - Responses (Thanks!)
Hello!
I have received a couple of responses to my original question dealing with
'shade' statement for thematic mapping (individual values). Thanks to Brad
and Antoine. I'll post their response in entirety for those who don't like
summaries.
Briefly, the problem was that I am working on an application that, based on
a query, the resulting number of values to be mapped out can be varied. I
wondered how I could use the shade statement by taking this problem into
account.
I have discovered that you can put the values into a string array variable
and execute the 'shade' statement by using the 'run command' statement.
Here is my code:
dim counter, newsize as integer
dim name_list as string
dim names(5) as string 'this variable needs to be redim according to
newsize
counter = 2
name_list = Chr$(34) + names(1) + Chr$(34)
Do While counter = newsize
name_list = name_list + "," + Chr$(34) + names(counter) + Chr$(34)
counter = counter + 1
Loop
Run Command "Shade 2 With New_Dealer Values" + name_list
I still don't know how to shade the polygons with black and white patterns
rather than the awful default colours. If anyone knows how to do this...
I'm still looking for a solution. Thanks again! Hope this isn't too
confusing.
Here are the 2 responses I got:
Note: can yield the same result using Chr$(34) - it's based on
preference. :)
--- From Brad ---
I worked with strings and the run command statement
here is a snippet of the part that adds all the columns to map for a
pie/bar thematic map
sPieString = "shade window " + iEastCoastMap +" 1 With COL3"
For i = 1 to iNumCols-1
sPieString=sPieString+",COL" + str$(i+3)
Next
you need to work with the legend in a different manner
set legend
window iEastCoastMap
layer prev
display on
shades on
symbols on
title "Legend" Font ("Arial",0,8,0)
Ranges Font ("Arial",0,7,0) auto display on , auto display on ,
auto
display on , auto display on , auto display on , auto display on , auto
display on , auto display on , auto display on , auto display on , auto
display on , auto display on , auto display on
ascending on
by having enough auto display ons to cover the max number of objects to
shade.
if you have only, for example, 3 then the rest are ignored
Brad
GeoInfo Solutions Ltd.
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.geoinfosolutions.com
phone/fax 250-656-7170
--- From Antoine ---
use the RUN COMMAND instruction..
exemple:
dim tmp as String
tmp = "Shade .. With ... bla bla bla "
tmp = tmp + "Values "
for i=0 to x
tmp = tmp + + nameIndividualValue(i) + + " Brush(" + param1(i)
+ "," + param2(i) + "," + param3(i) + "), "
Next
Run Command tmp
PS : is an insertion of the caracter - " - into the string...
for the string stories, i'm not not sure to understand all you asked..
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Thanks...
Susan
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FW: MI MapBasic Shade statement - Responses (Thanks!) - correction
I'm sorry for this, but I meant to take out the part about not figuring out
the filling the polygons with black and white patterns. I forgot that I
tried Antoine's technique.
With sincere apologies,
Susan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Friday, October 01, 1999 9:39 AM
To: MapInfo-L (E-mail)
Subject: MI MapBasic Shade statement - Responses (Thanks!)
Hello!
I have received a couple of responses to my original question dealing with
'shade' statement for thematic mapping (individual values). Thanks to Brad
and Antoine. I'll post their response in entirety for those who don't like
summaries.
Briefly, the problem was that I am working on an application that, based on
a query, the resulting number of values to be mapped out can be varied. I
wondered how I could use the shade statement by taking this problem into
account.
I have discovered that you can put the values into a string array variable
and execute the 'shade' statement by using the 'run command' statement.
Here is my code:
dim counter, newsize as integer
dim name_list as string
dim names(5) as string 'this variable needs to be redim according to
newsize
counter = 2
name_list = Chr$(34) + names(1) + Chr$(34)
Do While counter = newsize
name_list = name_list + "," + Chr$(34) + names(counter) + Chr$(34)
counter = counter + 1
Loop
Run Command "Shade 2 With New_Dealer Values" + name_list
I still don't know how to shade the polygons with black and white patterns
rather than the awful default colours. If anyone knows how to do this...
I'm still looking for a solution. Thanks again! Hope this isn't too
confusing.
Here are the 2 responses I got:
Note: """" can yield the same result using Chr$(34) - it's based on
preference. :)
--- From Brad ---
I worked with strings and the run command statement
here is a snippet of the part that adds all the columns to map for a
pie/bar thematic map
sPieString = "shade window " + iEastCoastMap +" 1 With COL3"
For i = 1 to iNumCols-1
sPieString=sPieString+",COL" + str$(i+3)
Next
you need to work with the legend in a different manner
set legend
window iEastCoastMap
layer prev
display on
shades on
symbols on
title "Legend" Font ("Arial",0,8,0)
Ranges Font ("Arial",0,7,0) auto display on , auto display on ,
auto
display on , auto display on , auto display on , auto display on , auto
display on , auto display on , auto display on , auto display on , auto
display on , auto display on , auto display on
ascending on
by having enough auto display ons to cover the max number of objects to
shade.
if you have only, for example, 3 then the rest are ignored
Brad
GeoInfo Solutions Ltd.
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.geoinfosolutions.com
phone/fax 250-656-7170
--- From Antoine ---
use the RUN COMMAND instruction..
exemple:
dim tmp as String
tmp = "Shade .. With ... bla bla bla "
tmp = tmp + "Values "
for i=0 to x
tmp = tmp + """" + nameIndividualValue(i) + """" + " Brush(" + param1(i)
+ "," + param2(i) + "," + param3(i) + "), "
Next
Run Command tmp
PS : """" is an insertion of the caracter - " - into the string...
for the string stories, i'm not not sure to understand all you asked..
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|| \\
|| \\Le Groupe KOREM Inc.
||\\ http://www.korem.com
___
Thanks...
Susan
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RE: MI MapBasic Shade statement
(Okay okay, here you go so everybody can read it! =)
Just to add to the list of suggestions, here's a little snippet of code from
an MBX I wrote to shade a variably sized list of polygons with individual
colors:
Table name is "neighbors", but could be any table that was formed from a
prior selection
fetch first from neighbors 'creates a text string of all sector
'name values in order to
thematically
'shade the layer
cstring = """" + neighbors.Sector_name + ""","
for i = 1 to tableinfo(neighbors, TAB_INFO_NROWS)-2
fetch next from neighbors
cstring = cstring + """" + Neighbors.Sector_name + ""","
next
fetch next from neighbors
cstring = cstring + """" + Neighbors.Sector_name + """"
Run Command "Shade window " +win_id+ " selection with Sector_Name values " +
cstring 'shades the layer
Hopefully this sheds a little light. I posted a question to the list about
how to do this and didn't get exactly the answer I was looking for, but it
was enough to point me exactly where I wanted to go.
good luck,
Ben
-Original Message-----
From: Antoine Gilbert [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 1999 11:46 AM
To: Susan Yu; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: MI MapBasic Shade statement
use the RUN COMMAND instruction..
exemple:
dim tmp as String
tmp = "Shade .. With ... bla bla bla "
tmp = tmp + "Values "
for i=0 to x
tmp = tmp + """" + nameIndividualValue(i) + """" + " Brush(" +
param1(i)
+ "," + param2(i) + "," + param3(i) + "), "
Next
Run Command tmp
PS : """" is an insertion of the caracter - " - into the string...
for the string stories, i'm not not sure to understand all you asked..
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|| // [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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|| \\
|| \\Le Groupe KOREM Inc.
||\\ http://www.korem.com
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- Original Message -
From: Susan Yu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 1999 10:31 AM
Subject: MI MapBasic Shade statement
Hello everyone,
I was wondering if anyone can help me with a Map Basic problem I am
having.
I'm trying to automate a thematic map using the "Region, individual
values,
black and white" template. This map is suppose to result from values
extracted from a selection performed prior.
The selection results with a list of names - and regions should be shaded
according to which name it falls in. I have managed to just get the
names
and the regions it falls under. Not the shading part.
Then I have to use the "Shade" statement to create the thematic map:
Shade 3 With some_column
Values
"x" Brush ...
"yy" Brush ...
"zz" Brush ...
etc
My problem is that the list of names can be 3 or 23! How do I code in
Map
Basic to dynamically list the names and assign a different brush style
under
the Shade statement?
Another attempt: I put the names in an array variable. I tried to list
the
values by putting them all in one variable 'name_list', where names(n)
is
the array variable containing the names:
counter = 2
name_list = Chr$(34) + names(1) + Chr$(34)
do while counter = newsize
name_list = name_list + "," + Chr$(34) + names(counter) + Chr$(34)
counter = counter + 1
loop
The problem with above is that 'name_list' is seen as just one long
string
rather than a list of strings, despite that I have put in double
quotation
marks (Chr$(34)).
I also tried putting under 'values' a variable list with: names(1),
names(2), names(3), ... to a certain number
but if the selection results in a list of names smaller than the listed
number of variables, then it doesn't work. It seem to fail when there is
no
value for the rest of the listed variables.
Or is there a way to call an existing MapInfo function and pre-assign all
the values to automatically create the thematic map?
The answer seem like it can be right under my nose but I can't see it.
Any
help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Susan
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MI MapBasic Shade statement
Hello everyone, I was wondering if anyone can help me with a Map Basic problem I am having. I'm trying to automate a thematic map using the "Region, individual values, black and white" template. This map is suppose to result from values extracted from a selection performed prior. The selection results with a list of names - and regions should be shaded according to which name it falls in. I have managed to just get the names and the regions it falls under. Not the shading part. Then I have to use the "Shade" statement to create the thematic map: Shade 3 With some_column Values "x" Brush ... "yy" Brush ... "zz" Brush ... etc My problem is that the list of names can be 3 or 23! How do I code in Map Basic to dynamically list the names and assign a different brush style under the Shade statement? Another attempt: I put the names in an array variable. I tried to list the values by putting them all in one variable 'name_list', where names(n) is the array variable containing the names: counter = 2 name_list = Chr$(34) + names(1) + Chr$(34) do while counter = newsize name_list = name_list + "," + Chr$(34) + names(counter) + Chr$(34) counter = counter + 1 loop The problem with above is that 'name_list' is seen as just one long string rather than a list of strings, despite that I have put in double quotation marks (Chr$(34)). I also tried putting under 'values' a variable list with: names(1), names(2), names(3), ... to a certain number but if the selection results in a list of names smaller than the listed number of variables, then it doesn't work. It seem to fail when there is no value for the rest of the listed variables. Or is there a way to call an existing MapInfo function and pre-assign all the values to automatically create the thematic map? The answer seem like it can be right under my nose but I can't see it. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Susan -- 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 MapBasic DDE link with Internet Explorer - help required-Reply
Hi David (- how are things in Merseyside?) listers I've recently been experimenting with IE4 / IE5 and its Active-X component with Delphi to integrate web browsing in an application. Until last month I didn't know that you could do this with IE. This is obivously well-beyond the humble capabilities of MapBasic, but shows that something is possible - however OLE would be better than DDE. You may (or may not!) like to know that I had no trouble running ie with the command line parameter of the html page I wanted to open with MapInfo 4 ie 3 a few years ago: sIE = "C:\windows\iexplore.exe" sPage = "http://www.ThisShouldWork.co.uk/index.htm" sTemp = sIE + " " + sPage Run application sTemp What you may want can be found using the WinApi - sorry I don't have the funtion to hand to run another app based upon the filename's extension (ie .htm / .html) but somebody out there should know it. Hope this helps Mike __ Mike Eden Project Consultant MVA, MVA House, Woking Surrey, GU21 1DD, UK Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.mva-group.com Tel: +44(0)1483 728051 Fax: +44(0)1483 755207 "Yarwood, Dave" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 28/September/1999 09:05am Dear all, Has anyone got any experience / code for interacting with Internet Explorer 4.x through DDE ? I want a user to be able to access a map layer's metadata stored on an intranet catalogue. I can launch Internet Explorer from within MapBasic but can't find the code to get the browser to open the URL I want. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Dave Yarwood Project Manager Eurogise Team City of Liverpool 4th Floor Millennium House, 60 Victoria St, Liverpool L1 6JN tel +44 (0) 151 233 6707 fax +44 (0) 151 233 6770 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eurogise.org -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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 MapBasic disable all Icons in non MapInfo 5.5 toolbars
Hi Franck, Try creating the ODBC link manually in Mapinfo and saving the table. Do this both in Mapinfo v5.0 and v5.5. Open the .tab files in a text editor and compare the contents. Maybe the syntax of the connect string is different? Good luck! Pete, Ordnance Survey, UK -Original Message- From: Franck Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 18 September 1999 05:42 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: MI MapBasic disable all Icons in non MapInfo 5.5 toolbars Importance: High I have a MapBasic 5.0 program that makes calls to an ODBC SQL database. Server Connect. When the server disconnect is called all the Icons of all the non MapInfo toolbars (Custom toolbars) become disabled. What is funny is this behaviour exits only with MapInfo 5.5 not with MapInfo 5.0. The same MapBasic program runs perfectly under MI 5.0. I'm puzzled. I have checked everywhere that all the opens are closed that the data binding are unbound correctly but nothing changes. HELP !!! Cheers. Franck Martin Network and Database Development Officer SOPAC South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission Fiji E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web site: www.sopac.org.fj http://www.sopac.org.fj -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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 MapBasic - Multiple Files
Hi Folks, I've written a small MapBasic program which imports only a few layers from a DXF file into a TAB file. Unfortunately there are about 700 files I need to do this with and my program only lets me choose one at a time. Could anyone give me any hints as to how to get a list of files so I can stick them in an array and use a For..Next Loop to do all the files in a directory (if that's the correct way to do it)? Thanks in advance Gordon Stenhouse North of Scotland Water Authority NOTE: The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not read, use or disseminate that information. Although this email and any attachments are believed to be free of any virus, or any other defect which might affect any computer or IT system into which they are received or opened, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that they are virus free and no responsibility is accepted by North of Scotland Water Authority for any loss or damage arising in any way from receipt or use thereof. -- 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 MapBasic Demographic Buffering Tool
Try the Fuzz tool from the list. Define and draw a distance dependant function that'll enable you to qualify objects around your point(s). Define one or more new columns in in your target(household) objects table. Apply the distance function to this table, from your points location table. The target table is now qualified in terms of shortest distance (straight flight of course) from the nearest point. Use standard SQL to order your target table from this qualified field, select fields while summing your demographic variable (I know MI doesn't provide a running sum function, but you still have trial and error method) Note that you can define a differential function too, that could similarly qualify your target's objects with social/income/proximity of collective transport/proximity of a road, etc ... You could even add an angular function to qualify in function of the location (if North South transportation is globally easier than East West for example...) but it may be overkill ... The other way is to buy Vertical Mapper, that'll do a huff based analisys, with powerfull tools and visualisation; Last way is to work with MI buffers, but it's pretty difficult when dealing with multiple points if your demographic table isn't regular and evenly distributed in space, you may have weird results in this latter case. It certainly is depending on what you're after ... Eric. -Message d'origine- De: Kent Hargesheimer [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Date: jeudi 16 septembre 1999 19:54 A: MapInfo-L Objet: MI MapBasic Demographic Buffering Tool Listers- I have a retail client in need of a tool that will draw a buffer around a point or set of points to capture a specified count of a demographic variable (such as 100,000 people or households). Does anyone have a MapBasic tool that does this? Thanks, Kent Hargesheimer Senior Consultant SRC - Extending the Reach of Micromarketing 603 Chadfield Way N.E. Leesburg, VA 20176-4823 Tel 703.737.7739 Fax 703.737.7719 Website: http://www.extendthereach.com SRC in Action: http://www.demographicsnow.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] -- 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 MapBasic - Multiple Files
An alternative is to make eek! a couple of windows API function calls. If you have a manual on API functions handy, check out these two: FindFirstFile Lib "kernel32" FindNextFile Lib "kernel32" You can declare them in mb and write a function which finds the files for you automatically (once you've retrieved the directory of interest from the user). And if you don't know how to do it already, you'll be glad once you learn how to call API functions! - Tom ** Tom A. White, GIS Programmer / Analyst Schlosser Geographic Systems, Inc. http://www.sgsi.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Two Union Sq. 601 Union St. Seattle, WA 98101 USA (206) 224 - 0800 fax: (206) 467 - 0458 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 17, 1999 6:43 AM To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MI MapBasic - Multiple Files Hi Folks, I've written a small MapBasic program which imports only a few layers from a DXF file into a TAB file. Unfortunately there are about 700 files I need to do this with and my program only lets me choose one at a time. Could anyone give me any hints as to how to get a list of files so I can stick them in an array and use a For..Next Loop to do all the files in a directory (if that's the correct way to do it)? Thanks in advance Gordon Stenhouse North of Scotland Water Authority NOTE: The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not read, use or disseminate that information. Although this email and any attachments are believed to be free of any virus, or any other defect which might affect any computer or IT system into which they are received or opened, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that they are virus free and no responsibility is accepted by North of Scotland Water Authority for any loss or damage arising in any way from receipt or use thereof. -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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 MapBasic - Multiple Files
you could use the dos dir command to get a list and redirect it to a file. ie: dir *.* tempfile.txt what the dir command would normally show on the screen is now put into the tempfile.txt file. you could then load the file in excell or something to trim out the extra data/columns you don't want. hope it helps. Mike Lepage, B.Sc. Senior RF Engineer Wireless Professional Services Lucent Technologies 314-891-2130 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 17, 1999 8:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MI MapBasic - Multiple Files Hi Folks, I've written a small MapBasic program which imports only a few layers from a DXF file into a TAB file. Unfortunately there are about 700 files I need to do this with and my program only lets me choose one at a time. Could anyone give me any hints as to how to get a list of files so I can stick them in an array and use a For..Next Loop to do all the files in a directory (if that's the correct way to do it)? Thanks in advance Gordon Stenhouse North of Scotland Water Authority NOTE: The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not read, use or disseminate that information. Although this email and any attachments are believed to be free of any virus, or any other defect which might affect any computer or IT system into which they are received or opened, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that they are virus free and no responsibility is accepted by North of Scotland Water Authority for any loss or damage arising in any way from receipt or use thereof. -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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 MapBasic - Multiple Files
Goto Dos Prompt write c:\ dir *.dxf dxffiles.txt In Mapinfo Open Table make the file type TXT and select dxffiles.txt open it save a copy of this file (let say mydxfs.tab) open mydxfs open mapbasic window write UPDATE mydxfs SET col1 = write$(col1,len(col1)-44) 'because in dos file names start in 44th position this command leaves only file names including long file names (but in windows 95/98) delete first and last few lines which are not filenames Pack yout table now you can make For..Next Best Regards -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 17 Eyll 1999 Cuma 17:52 Subject: MI MapBasic - Multiple Files Hi Folks, I've written a small MapBasic program which imports only a few layers from a DXF file into a TAB file. Unfortunately there are about 700 files I need to do this with and my program only lets me choose one at a time. Could anyone give me any hints as to how to get a list of files so I can stick them in an array and use a For..Next Loop to do all the files in a directory (if that's the correct way to do it)? Thanks in advance Gordon Stenhouse North of Scotland Water Authority NOTE: The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not read, use or disseminate that information. Although this email and any attachments are believed to be free of any virus, or any other defect which might affect any computer or IT system into which they are received or opened, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that they are virus free and no responsibility is accepted by North of Scotland Water Authority for any loss or damage arising in any way from receipt or use thereof. -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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 MapBasic Demographic Buffering Tool
Kent, Select the points in question, then choose Objects|Buffer... and it will draw a buffer around the selected points with a given radius. Then, you can use the Boundary Select Tool to select points within the new buffer polygon. Hope that helps. Steve -Original Message- From: Kent Hargesheimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MapInfo-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, September 16, 1999 1:19 PM Subject: MI MapBasic Demographic Buffering Tool Listers- I have a retail client in need of a tool that will draw a buffer around a point or set of points to capture a specified count of a demographic variable (such as 100,000 people or households). Does anyone have a MapBasic tool that does this? Thanks, Kent Hargesheimer Senior Consultant SRC - Extending the Reach of Micromarketing 603 Chadfield Way N.E. Leesburg, VA 20176-4823 Tel 703.737.7739 Fax 703.737.7719 Website: http://www.extendthereach.com SRC in Action: http://www.demographicsnow.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] _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.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 MapBasic Demographic Buffering Tool
I think what he was looking for was to buffer out from a location UNTIL a certain value is reached what is your demographic breakdown? what I mean is it would be nice if you were a the finest "granularity" which is at the block group level as opposed to Census Tractsbut regardless of what your granularity is you can always compute a buffer that bisects these until you meet your threshold not very difficult to do. I just don't have it coded.. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Steve Schnick Sent: Thursday, September 16, 1999 14:22 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; MapInfo-L Subject: Re: MI MapBasic Demographic Buffering Tool Kent, Select the points in question, then choose Objects|Buffer... and it will draw a buffer around the selected points with a given radius. Then, you can use the Boundary Select Tool to select points within the new buffer polygon. Hope that helps. Steve -Original Message- From: Kent Hargesheimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MapInfo-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, September 16, 1999 1:19 PM Subject: MI MapBasic Demographic Buffering Tool Listers- I have a retail client in need of a tool that will draw a buffer around a point or set of points to capture a specified count of a demographic variable (such as 100,000 people or households). Does anyone have a MapBasic tool that does this? Thanks, Kent Hargesheimer Senior Consultant SRC - Extending the Reach of Micromarketing 603 Chadfield Way N.E. Leesburg, VA 20176-4823 Tel 703.737.7739 Fax 703.737.7719 Website: http://www.extendthereach.com SRC in Action: http://www.demographicsnow.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] _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.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] -- 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 mapbasic pixshow-bug with workspaces
Just wanted to let everyone know of a small bug that has been bothering the hell out of me. I downloaded the mapbasic pixshow utility so that I could create hotlinks from points to images. Well it turns out that all will run smoothly until you save your work in a workspace. After doing this, when you use the hotlink and the image opens up, when you are done viewing the image and click the "X" in the corner to close it, you get that fatal error that you have performed an illegal operation and that MapInfo is shutting down. What a horrible sight that is. I have tested this theory a number of times to make sure, and that is what the problem seems to be. If anyone know how to fix this, or knows what I am doing wrong I would love to hear from you. Thanking you in advance, Ryan
MI Mapbasic application for wireless
Does anyone know how to understand or to find references about programming with mapbasic particulary in telecom/wireless aplication? Any inform will be very apreciated. Thank you -- 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 Mapbasic DLL programming question
Hi everybody, I have a MapBasic programming question. I am trying to link to a DLL but when I run my MBX I get the message "Unable to load library abc.dll. Unable to link to external library abc.dll". Has anyone come across this before? I heard from MapInfo that only 32 bit dll's are supported and this is a 32 bit dll so that shouldn't be the problem. The dll is in C. A snippet of one of the functions in the .h file is: ABC_OBJECT_C_API ABC_MsgNum ABC_SessionCreate (ABC_SESSION_HANDLE *sessionHandle); -- note that sessionHandle has an "*" infront of it. ABC_SESSION_HANDLE is typedef'd as an unsigned long. In my .MB program declared the function as: Declare Function ABC_sessionCreate LIB "abc.dll" (ABC_sessionHandle As Integer) As Integer The dll is called "abc.dll", all lower-case letters. My mbx is stored in the same subdirectory as the dll. I defined ABC_sessionHandle as an Integer. My function call is: check_status = ABC_sessionCreate (ABC_sessionHandle) At this point I get the unable to load dll error message. Any help is greatly appreciated. Karl -- _ Terratech Mapping Services Inc. Suite 201 - 7112 Russell Avenue Burnaby, British ColumbiaProviding CANADA V5J 4R9 Geographic Solutions... Tel: (604) 437-MAPS (6277) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: (604) 433-5715 http://www.tms.bc.ca -- 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 mapbasic window size
MapInfo users, I don't have mapbasic but i do run repetitive operations in the mapbasic window. Is there a way to expand the amount of text i can put in this window? Thanks, Tammy Joyce -- 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 mapbasic window size
You mean to change the size of font and all that? If you are wanting to change the font size in Mapbasic, then First reset the Text style, then, In mapbasic window issu.. Set Window 1002 Font CurrentFont() This should reset to whatever the font and font size you want to use It this is not what you are asking, ...??? Yas - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - -- --- -- -- --- - - - - - - - - MapInfo users, I don't have mapbasic but i do run repetitive operations in the mapbasic window. Is there a way to expand the amount of text i can put in this window? Thanks, Tammy Joyce -- 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 MapBasic File Size Exceed 64KB
Try using a plain text editor, that's all. (I can recommend the text editor UltraEdit, you can download it from www.ultraedit.com) In the future, just write your program outside of MapBasic and then use the 'Compile from file' option in MapBasic. -Original Message- From: IDS [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 18. august 1999 09:30 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MI MapBasic File Size Exceed 64KB Hello, The mapbasic program that I was writing exceeded 64 KB and consequently I am not able to open the same. How can I retrieve the same ? I am in deep trouble. Any help/suggestion will be welcome. Thank you. Sanjoy Dassarma ** Integrated Digital Systems 4B Sundaram 46F Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Road Calcutta 700 016 Tel : 91 33 2290541/2295265 Fax : 91 33 4667974 ** -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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 MapBasic - Inserting Values
That's not true. I insert objects with data elements all the time. However, I do put the object first. (Ce n'est pas vrai. J'insère des objets avec des éléments d'informations toute l'heure. Cependant, je mets l'objet d'abord.) - Bill Thoen Antoine Gilbert wrote: in a mapbasic you can't insert objects elements in the same time of data element.. insert your data elements first and after use update statement for insert your object element i don't speak english... hehe - Original Message - From: Steve Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 13, 1999 4:23 PM Subject: MI MapBasic - Inserting Values I'm perplexed. The following line of code works if I add a breakpoint to my MapBasic program and paste the line of code into the MapBasic window, but it will not work in the compiled code. Insert Into Discussion (Date_Zulu, Time_Zulu, Wind_KTS, Obj) Values (18, "1200Z", 35, CreatePoint(00, 00) ) Ideas? Thanks! Steve Wallace GIS Market Information Manager Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
